Medical term:

betacism



betacism

 [ba´tah-sizm]
excessive use of the b sound in speaking.
Miller-Keane Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health, Seventh Edition. © 2003 by Saunders, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc. All rights reserved.

be·ta·cism

(bā'tă-sizm),
A defect in speech in which the sound of b is given to other consonants.
[G. bēta, the second letter of the alphabet]
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be·ta·cism

(bā'tă-sizm)
A defect in speech in which the sound of b is given to other consonants.
[G. bēta, the second letter of the alphabet]
Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions and Nursing © Farlex 2012

betacism

(bā′tă-sĭzm) [Gr. beta, the letter b, + -ismos, condition]
Speech in which other letters of the alphabet are inappropriately pronounced like the letter b.
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