Category: R

Caries on the root of a tooth. The root is more susceptible to decay than the rest of the tooth due to the lack of an enamel covering, difficulty in maintaining a clean root surface, and the lack of effective preventive therapies.  

Dental caries that develops at the small imperfections between the tooth surface and a restoration, caused by plaque at the imperfections.  

A sudden onset of widespread caries that affects most of the teeth and penetrates quickly to the dental pulp.  

Dental caries that develops as a side effect of treatment of malignancies of the oral cavity with ionizing radiation. The etiology is, in part, due to the dysfunction of the salivary glands.  

The vulnerability of the caregiver for difficulties felt in performing the role of family caregiver.  

The evaluation, treatment, and rehabilitation of patients with cardiopulmonary disease by respiratory therapy professionals working under a physician’s supervision.  

Inflammation of cardiac tissue as a result of acute rheumatic fever. Mitral insufficiency is a prominent feature, and aortic insufficiency is sometimes present as well.  

A disease of the heart muscle associated with lack of flexibility of the ventricular walls. Common causes include hemochromatosis, amyloidosis, and other diseases in which the heart is infiltrated by foreign material, or scarred.  

An apparatus for measuring heat produced from exchange of respiratory gases.  

A bursa anterior to the thyrohyoid membrane. It was formerly called Boyer’s bursa.