Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Regurgitant
Throwing back or flowing in a direction opposite to normal.
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Regulation development
In embryology, the condition in which a single blastomere or a portion of an embryo can give rise to a whole embryo; the opposite of mosaic development.
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Cancer registry
A list of patients diagnosed with cancer, kept to facilitate patient follow-up, as well as research about cancer causes, therapies, and outcomes.
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Registration
The recording of information such as births or deaths; the recording of those who are registered or licensed to practice within a state.
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Registrant
A nurse named on the books of a registry as being “on call” or available to be called for duty.
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Registered pulmonary function technologist
An individual who has completed the pulmonary function registry examination administered by the National Board for Respiratory Care.
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Region of interest
In radiology the object of a study or a treatment designed to affect a limited part of the body.
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Chest region
The anterior, posterior, and lateral chest areas. Anterior divisions (right and left) are the clavicular, infraclavicular, and supraclavicular, the mammary and inframammary, and the upper and lower sternal. Posterior divisions (right and left) are the scapular, infra-scapular, inter-scapular, and suprascapular. Lateral divisions are the axillary and infra-axillary.
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Regainer
A device that ameliorates or restores something that was lost.
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Refusal to treat
A deliberate, conscious decision to withhold health care services from a patient.
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