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Btu (medicine)


BTU -->
British Thermal Unit
<unit> Unit of energy needed to raise one pound of water by one degree fahrenheit.

It is equal to 252 calories or 1055 Joules.

Acronym: BTU


basolateral plasma membrane (medicine)


basolateral plasma membrane
<cell biology> The plasma membrane of epithelial cells that is adjacent to the basal lamina or the adjoining cells of the sheet. Differs both in protein and phospholipid composition from the apical plasma membrane from which it is isolated by tight junctions (zonula occludentes).