Category: R

  • Resect

    The surgical cutting away of tissue. To remove any part of the body by surgery. To cut off or cut out a portion of a structure or organ, as to cut off the end of a bone or to remove a segment of the intestine.  

  • Research method

    A learner-centered method that affords the learner an opportunity to develop a research design and to carry it through to a conclusion.  

  • Rescue tools

    Cutting, prying, digging, and pulling tools used to free entrapped persons. A piece of equipment used by rescuers in emergency medical service to free trapped victims. Rescue tools include a come-a-long, a hand-operated winch used to gain forceful entry during a rescue; cutting tools, used to cut open vehicles and metal to gain access to…

  • Rescue

    The freeing of persons from threatening or dangerous situations by prompt and vigorous action. There are three general classes: (a) heavy, activity that involves the use of complicated tools, equipment, and procedures; (b) light, a activity by simple means and with minimum equipment; and (c) medium, a activity using more specialized tools and equipment than…

  • Repulsion

    The act of pushing or driving back.  

  • Reproductive success

    The extent to which organisms are able to produce offspring who survive long enough to pass on their genes to successive generations.  

  • Reproductive sexuality

    Sexuality that is centered in the structural, functional, and behavioral aspects of reproduction.  

  • Reproductive potential

    A male or female who is capable of reproduction. This capability begins in puberty with menarche in the female and ejaculatory functions in the male, providing that ovulation takes place in the female and sperm production is adequate in the male.  

  • Reproductive bias

    The belief that procreation is the sole purpose and justification of sexual intercourse.  

  • Reproduction method

    A method of studying retention in which the subjects must reproduce materials previously learned.