Category: R

  • Residential

    Living in a hospital. Living at home.  

  • Resident doctor

    A doctor who lives in a building such as an old people’s home.  

  • Reset

    To break a badly set bone and set it again correctly.  

  • Resectoscope

    A surgical instrument used to carry out a transurethral resection. A type of surgical instrument (an endoscope) used in resection of the prostate or in the removal of bladder tumors. An instrument for resection of the prostate gland through the urethra.  

  • Research and development

    The process by which pharmaceutical companies find new drugs and test their suitability.  

  • Requirement

    Something which is necessary.  

  • Require

    To need something.  

  • Reproductive tract

    The series of tubes and ducts which carry spermatozoa or ova from one part of the body to another.  

  • Reproductive organs

    Parts of the bodies of men and women which are involved in the conception and development of a fetus. Any organ concerned with the production of offspring. These include the primary organs (testes and ovaries) and accessory structures (penis and spermatic cord in the male and fallopian tubes, uterus, and vagina in the female). In…

  • Reproduce

    To produce children. (Of microorganisms) to produce new cells. To do a test again in exactly the same way.