Category: R

Treatment by manipulating, anesthetizing, or cauterizing an area distant from the location of the disorder.  

Marked by reflex activity or by exaggerated reflexes.  

An instrument that measures the force of the tap required to produce a reflex.  

A device for recording and graphing a reflex, especially one produced by muscular activity.  

A test used in audiometry to see how the eardrum responds to a loud tone applied either directly to the ear of interest or to the opposite (contralateral) ear. The sonic stimulus makes the stapedius muscle contract. Data from the test help to determine whether abnormal responses to the tone are the result of damage…

Any of the reflexes that enable an animal to maintain the body in a definite relationship to the head and thus maintain its body right side up.  

The red light reflection seen in ophthalmoscopic examination of the eye. A crimson radiance of light observed emanating from the eye when its interior is illuminated.  

In cardiology, the cycling of an electrical impulse through conductive tissue that has been recently stimulated. This is the cause of many tachycardic heart rhythms (e.g., those originating in the atrioventricular node).  

A fold or tuck, usually taken in redundant tissue.  

Training to restore competence to a person with functional limitations.