Category: R
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Referential communication
Communication that makes reference to objects or situations that cannot be experienced directly.
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Reference group
In social psychology, a group that provides a person with attitudinal and behavioral standards.
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Reference delusion
Characterized by a person associating great meaning to insignificant events, delusion. The unjustified belief that event, objects, or other persons have exaggerated significance: delusion. A delusion that causes the patient to read an unintended meaning into the acts or words of others. Usually the affected person interprets comments about others as being directed toward himself…
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Reduplication
One of the ways children simplify language by repeating a single syllable of a word in order to represent the whole word, e.g., “wa-wa” for water. Doubling of the heart sounds, which may be heard in healthly individuals and shows variation with respiration due to the slightly asynchronous closure of the heart valves. A doubling,…
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Reduction mammoplasty
Reconstruction of the breast through plastic surgery to reduce its size.
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Reduction division
Heterotypic division. The first division of meiosis, in which the chromosome number is halved. The term is sometimes used as a synonym for the whole of meiosis.
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Reduction ab absurdum
In law, an interpretation that would lead to results illogical or not intended.
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Reducing valve
A device attached to an oxygen container to control the pressure of the oxygen delivered to a person. The reduces the pressure from its very high storage level to one suitable for delivery to the person.
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Reduced cholesterol (On food labels)
A food that cannot contain more than one-fourth the cholesterol of the food it replaces, low cholesterol.
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Redistribution
In physiology, the process by which a substance, such as a drug, is distributed through out the body from one area of concentration in order to achieve a uniform concentration systemically. The matching of care personnel resources to the population’s site of care. The term usually is used in discussing the maldistribution of in-hospital personnel…