Category: R

Restoring a hypothermic patient’s body temperature to normal. Techniques used include removing wet clothing; wrapping patients in blankets, hotpacks, or foils; infusing intravenous, nasogastric, or intraperitoneal fluids warmed to about 40°C; increasing the temperature of the patient’s blood with extracorporeal bypass machines, or, rarely, immersing the patient in warm water.  

Repugnance, hostility, or extreme distaste for a person or thing. The transfer of blood from one part of the body to another distant part.  

Causing transfer of disease or blood from one part of the body to another.  

A n attempt to restore life to those apparently dead; restoration to life or consciousness; also the restoration of life in local parts, as a limb after freezing.  

An organism that has reverted to a previous phenotype by mutation.  

A transient stroke resulting from k decrease in cerebral blood flow. Symptoms typically last longer than 24 hr but less than 1 week.  

A form of administration of medication in which dosages are given every few hours or less often.  

The study of the interactions between herbal and allopathic medications.  

A needle with an eye at the tip that can be opened and closed by a lever.  

The process by which closed chains of neurons, when excited by a single impulse, continue to discharge impulses from collaterals of their cells.