Category: R

One of two arteries running from the abdominal aorta to the kidneys. Either of a pair of arteries arising from the abdominal aorta and supplying the kidneys, adrenal glands, and ureters. Paired blood vessels of the kidneys that supply oxygenated blood to the kidneys, suprarenal glands, and ureters. Either of two large arteries arising from…

To take something away.  

The action of removing something.  

Fever which goes down for a period each day, like typhoid fever. The team applied to the form of fever in which, from time to time, the temperature falls, but not the normal. A pattern of fever that varies over a 24-hr period but does not return to normal.  

To bring back into the mind something which has been seen or heard before.  

A cure, a drug which will cure. In law, something which a court (or a statute) grants to redress a wrong or make an injured person whole. The most common remedy is money. Another, less common remedy is an injunction (ordering the defendant to do something or stop doing something).  

Acting as a cure.  

To make something better or easier.  

The process of allowing something to go out. A giving up of a legal claim or right, to the person against whom the claim could have been asserted. For example, when a malpractice case is settled, the injured patient signs a release freeing the physician and hospital from any further liability for the injury, in…

A hormone which is secreted by the placenta to make the cervix relax and open fully in the final stages of pregnancy before childbirth. A small peptide hormone produced by the corpus luteum of the ovary during the first and second trimesters of pregnancy. It is structurally similar to insulin with two peptide chains (A…