Category: R

Action in a reverse direction.  

A budgetary reduction; a cutback in the amount of funds allocated for a purpose. A plastic surgery procedure where surface tissues are excised to achieve the tightening or contraction of a scar.  

To instruct a person in a skill or trade different from the person’s previous work.  

Capable of being drawn back or in.  

Surgical incision of the retina, e.g., to remove proliferating blood vessels in age-related macular degeneration.  

Any degenerative process of the retina not associated with inflammation.  

Inflammation of the retina and optic papilla extending to the optic disk.  

Detachment of the retina at its periphery.  

Inflammation of the retina and choroid.  

A non-progressive, degenerative familial disease in which innumerable minute white spots are scattered over the entire retina. There are no pigmentary changes. The disease usually starts early in life.