Category: R

The third finger, the finger between the little finger and the middle finger.  

A solution of inorganic salts which is used both to treat burns and cuts and to keep cells, tissues or organs alive outside the body. Mixture of sodium, potassium and calcium chlorides used as a suspending and diluting fluid for bacterial and other cells. Of a similar osmotic pressure to 0.85 per cent NaCl, Ringer’s…

The process of inserting local anaesthetic all the way round a digit, e.g. a finger, in order to perform a procedure distal to the block. A local anaesthetic agent injected into the circumference of the base of a digit. It numbs the nerves of the finger or toe and so permits minor surgery to be…

A space between the vocal cords. An elongated slit between the vocal folds.    

A narrow crack or cleft. Crack, cleft, or opening (e.g., rima glottidis, space between the vocal cords).  

One of the main terminal channels for carrying lymph, draining the right side of the head and neck and entering the junction of the right subclavian and internal jugular veins. It is the smaller of the two main discharge points of the lymphatic system into the venous system, the larger being the thoracic duct.  

A malformation in the heart, allowing blood to flow from the pulmonary artery to the aorta. A term used when a hole in the septum (internal wall) of the heart allows blood to flow from the systemic circulation, properly confined to the left side of the heart, to the pulmonary circulation, confined to the right.…

Using the right hand more often than the left. A type of handedness in which a person relies more heavily on and is more easy and proficient at using the right hand than the left.  

An artery which leads from the superior mesenteric artery.  

The fact of being legally entitled to do or to have something. To the dextral side of the body (the side away from the heart), which in most persons is the stronger or preferred.