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Transthoracic resistance
The amount of resistance to the flow of electrical energy across the chest. This is an important factor to consider when electrical therapies such as defibrillation, cardioversion, and transthoracic pacing are used to treat abnormal cardiac rhythms.
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Threshold resistance
The amount of pressure necessary in overcoming resistance to flow.
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Systemic vascular resistance
The resistance to the flow of blood through the body’s blood vessels. It increases as vessels constrict (e.g., when a drug like norepinephrine is given) and decreases when vessels dilate (e.g., in septic shock). Any change in the diameter, elasticity, or number of vessels recruited can influence the measured amount of resistance to the flow…
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Expiratory resistance
The use of a restricted orifice, or flow resistor, during positive pressure ventilation to retard the flow of exhaled gases.
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Antiviral resistance
The developed resistance of a virus to specific antiviral therapy.
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Airway resistance
The impedance to the flow of air into and out of the respiratory tract.
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Quick-cure resin
An autopolymer resin, used in many dental procedures, that can be polymerized by an activator and catalyst without applying external heat.
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Residual function
The functional capacity remaining after an illness or injury.
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Reservoir of infectious agents
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
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Continent urinary reservoir
A pouch made from the intestines used to hold urine in the abdomen, e.g., in patients who have had the urinary bladder removed. This internal pouch is an alternative to an ileostomy. It contains the urine and can be emptied by manual pressure or, more often, by catheterization.
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