Category: R

The dissipation of assets or reserves, especially (in health care and the environment) those that affect public health.  

A measuring tool developed to increase payment to non-surgeons for cognitive services (i.e., evaluation and management of patients). The scale is based on the total work required for a given service and on other considerations, including the cost of the physician’s practice, the income lost during training, and the relative cost of liability insurance. This…

The management of economic and administrative reserves by choosing from among competing claims for assets and services.  

An agent that promotes the absorption of abnormal matters, as exudates or blood clots (e.g., potassium iodide, ammonium chloride).  

A structure that can be set into sympathetic vibration when sound waves of the same frequency from another vibrating body strike it.  

Vibrating sympathetically with a source of sound or electrical oscillations.  

The functional capacity remaining after an illness or injury.  

Any person, animal, arthropod, plant, soil, or substance in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies, on which it depends primarily for survival, and where it reproduces itself in a way that allows transmission to a susceptible residency  

Succumbing to the effects of a sedative, hypnotic, or anesthetic drug after the drug’s action has been reversed with its antagonist. The effect may occur because the half-life of the drug exceeds that of the antagonist (e.g., when the drug re-enters the bloodstream after it is released from storage in fatty tissues).  

Resection of the prostate through the urethra.