Category: R

The restoration of calcium salts to tissues from which they have been withdrawn.  

An in vivo method of assessing inflammation. A superficial abrasion is made in the skin and a glass coverslip applied to the area. Leukocytes accumulate at the site and adhere to the coverslip.  

The inhalation of gases that had been previously exhaled.  

The renewal of an act of legislation, e.g., one that authorizes certain forms of treatment or health care funding.  

A means of understanding people and their behaviors in the context of their life histories and their interpretations of the important events in their lives.  

Epistemological likelihood based on considerable evidence or the opinion of most experts that an event has resulted from a specific cause. The concept of reasonable certainty is a legal one; it implies a measure of proof acceptable to a jury in a court of law rather than a proof that might be acceptable to the…

In law, the degree of care that an ordinarily prudent or reasonable person would exercise under given circumstances.  

In health care finance, the prevailing reimbursement for health services or medical care in a specific region or state. The term is vague. It reflects the reality that in differing states, regions, or health care institutions, the economics of health care may vary, owing to regional attitudes about care, or differences in professional expertise or…

To reactivate, restore to life, revive, or resuscitate.  

To technologies that report or record events and processes as they happen; said, e.g., of imaging procedures that take moving pictures rather than static images of body structures. A form of ultrasound examination that captures a series of images in real-time, enabling the observation of movement during the scanning process itself, eliminating the need to…