Category: R

A pattern of exchanging information and ideas with others that is sufficient for meeting one’s needs and life’s goals and can be strengthened.  

A pattern of ease, relief, and transcendence in physical, pyschospiritual, environmental, and/or social dimensions that can be strengthened.  

Cortical material of the kidney that extends centrally, separating the pyramids.  

A firm plastic collar applied to the neck of a patient whose mechanism of injury may lead to a neck injury. It is designed to limit flexion, extension, and lateral movement of the neck. Because no collar eliminates all movement, patients who have not yet had a fracture ruled out by x-ray examination should remain…

Colitis due to damage of the bowel by radiation therapy. The symptoms are those of an inflamed bowel: pain, cramps, diarrhea, and rectal bleeding. Malabsorption may develop as a result of permanent injury to the mucosa.  

Pain in the region of one of the flanks that radiates inferiorly, toward the lower abdomen, groin, scrotum, labia, or thigh. This condition may be associated with the passage of kidney stones.  

An attachment that fits on the cervical part of the tooth for retention of a rubber dam.  

The religious rite performed by Jews and Muslims at the time of removal of the prepuce.  

The use of a scintillation camera to record and project the image of a radioisotope as it travels through the heart and great vessels.  

A conduit in a cell membrane through which ions pass when a neurotransmitter binds to its receptor site.