Category: R

  • Res judicate

    A matter judicially decided.  

  • Resistance to extinction

    The tendency of a conditioned response to persist in the absence of any reinforcement.  

  • Resistance (To disease)

    The general ability of the body to ward off the effects of pathogens. The capacity to counteract or impede is known as resistance. In the medical context, the term “resistance” holds various interpretations. For instance, blood vessel walls generate resistance against the flow of blood. This resistance intensifies as blood vessel diameter diminishes, whether due…

  • Res ipsa loquitur

    The thing speaks for itself. Literally, ”the facts speak for themselves.” In malpractice, a legal doctrine or presumption that, when an injury occurs to a plaintiff through a situation under the sole and exclusive control of the defendant and where such injury would not normally occur if the one in control had used due care,…

  • Residual phase

    A period following the active phase of schizophrenia, in which motivation, social interaction, and self-care are wanting.  

  • Residual pain

    Pain that persists for 1-4 days after vigorous physical activity.  

  • Residual disability benefits

    The benefit paid because of a reduction of earnings resulting from a disability.  

  • Residency

    Residency

    Postgraduate medical training that prepares one for practice in a particular specialty of medicine. A prolonged (usually one or more complete years) period of on the job training which may either be a part of a formal educational program or be undertaken separately after completion of a formal program, sometimes in fulfillment of a requirement…

  • Reservoir

    A stockpile or pool. A cavity in an organ or group of tissues in which fluids collect and are stored. An organism in which a parasite lives and develops without damaging it, but from which the parasite then passes to another species which is damaged by it. A part of a machine or piece of…

  • Resegregation

    A situation following integration in which segregation returns.