- caffeine by Miguel Ramsey
... from coffee, tea, guarana and maté; it also acts as a mild diuretic. The production of more effective drugs has led to caffeine being discarded as an analeptic. It has even been bypassed by the persons who dope horses, especially because it is readily detectable in urine for up to 10 days after its administration.
- bad sector by Amanda Jennings
A segment of disk storage that cannot be read or written because of a physical problem in the disk. Bad sectors on hard disks are marked by the operating system and bypassed. If data are recorded in a sector that becomes bad, file recovery software, and sometimes special hardware, must be used to restore it.
- Roux-en-Y gastric bypass by Landon Nichols
A treatment for morbid obesity consisting of surgical division of the small intestine to form two arms. The jejunum is attached to a stoma into a gastric pouch, and the bypassed duodenum connects the pylorus with an end-to-side anastomosis into the lower jejunum.
- biliopancreatic diversion by Kyra Malone
... treatment for morbid obesity consisting of resection of the distal two thirds of the stomach and attachment of the ileum to the proximal stomach. The duodenum and jejunum are bypassed and empty their secretions into the distal ileum through a new anastomosis. Also called biliopancreatic bypass.
- Roux-en-Y by Josue Patterson
... surgeon, 1857-1926. A treatment for morbid obesity consisting of surgical division of the small intestine to form two arms; the jejunum is anastomosed to a gastric pouch and the bypassed duodenum connects the pylorus with an end-to-side anastomosis into the lower jejunum.