Category: R

  • Relocation test

    A clinical test used to identify the presence of anterior glenohumeral instability. The patient is placed supine, the glenohumeral joint abducted to 90 degrees with the elbow flexed to 90 degrees. While maintaining a posteriorly directed pressure on the humeral head, the examiner externally rotates the humerus. Used only following a positive apprehension test for…

  • Relocation stress syndrome

    Physiological and/or psychosocial disturbances as a result of transfer from one environment to another.  

  • Risk for impaired religiosity

    At risk for an impaired ability to exercise reliance on religious beliefs and/or participate in rituals of a particular faith tradition.  

  • Readiness for enhanced religiosity,

    Ability to increase reliance on religious beliefs and/or participate in rituals of a particular faith tradition.  

  • Relearning

    Acquiring a skill or ability that had been previously present but was lost or removed as a result of physical damage to the muscles or brain.  

  • Relaxometry

    In magnetic resonance imaging, the measurement of the time it takes for excited nuclei to return to their basal state.  

  • Relative dose response

    A progressively increasing reaction of a cell, tissue, or organism to a stimulus.  

  • Relative biological effect

    The effectiveness of types of radiation compared with that of x-rays or gamma rays.  

  • Relational disorder

    Marked impairments in communication or other aspects of interpersonal interactions among family members, spouses, or co-workers.  

  • Relation

    The condition, connection, or state of one thing compared with another. In the field of biology, a distinct and specialized interdependence between two living entities is referred to as “host-parasite relations”. It describes the interaction between a host, which provides a suitable environment for the parasite to survive and reproduce, and the parasite, which harms…