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Accelerated respiration
Respiration occurring at a faster rate than normal, considered accelerated when it exceeds 25 per minute in adults. Increased frequency may result from exercise, physical exertion, excitement, fear, exposure to high altitudes, and many metabolic, hematological, cardiac, and pulmonary diseases.
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Absent respiration
Respiration in which respiratory sounds are suppressed.
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Abdominal respiration
Respiration in which chiefly the diaphragm exerts itself while the chest wall muscles are nearly at rest; used in normal, quiet breathing and in pathological conditions such as pleurisy, pericarditis, and rib fracture. Breathing characterized by greater movement in the abdominal wall compared to the chest wall.
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Resource depletion
The dissipation of assets or reserves, especially (in health care and the environment) those that affect public health.
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Resource-based relative value scale
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…
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Resource allocation
The management of economic and administrative reserves by choosing from among competing claims for assets and services.
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Resorbent
An agent that promotes the absorption of abnormal matters, as exudates or blood clots (e.g., potassium iodide, ammonium chloride).
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Resonator
A structure that can be set into sympathetic vibration when sound waves of the same frequency from another vibrating body strike it.
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Resonating
Vibrating sympathetically with a source of sound or electrical oscillations.
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Whispering resonance
The auscultation sound heard when a patient whispers.
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