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Reconstructive surgery
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Reconstructive surgery Serving to rebuild, restore, or correct the appearance and function of defective, damaged, or misshaped body structures or parts.
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Recommended daily allowances
The federal government's recommendations for the minimum amounts of vitamins and minerals a person should eat each day.
Recovery Inn Of Menlo Park
The Recovery Inn Of Menlo Park is a hospital in San Mateo, California, United States.
Recovery room
A room designed to accommodate a woman's labor, delivery, and recovery.
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Radionuclide ventriculography
A diagnostic procedure used to determine the shape and size of the heart's chambers.
Radiopharmaceutical
Also tracer or radionuclide. Basic radioactively tagged compound necessary to produce a nuclear medicine image.
Radiosurgery
A radiation therapy technique that uses a large number of narrow, precisely aimed, highly focused beams of ionising radiation. The beams are aimed from many directions circling the head and meet at a specific point.
Rape
Forced or manipulated nonconsensual sexual contact, including vaginal or anal intercourse, oral sex, or penetration with an object.
Rapid gastric emptying
A condition that occurs when food moves too fast from the stomach into the small intestine. Symptoms are nausea, pain, weakness, and sweating. This syndrome most often affects people who have had stomach operations. Also called dumping syndrome.
Reconstructive surgery
Rectal manometry
A test that uses a thin tube and balloon to measure pressure and movements of the rectal and anal sphincter muscles. Usually used to diagnose chronic constipation and fecal incontinence.
Rectal prolapse
A condition in which the rectum slips so that it protrudes from the anus.
Rectocele
Condition in which weakening of the lower vaginal wall causes the rectum to bulge into the vagina.
Reflux
A condition that occurs when gastric juices or small amounts of food from the stomach flow back into the esophagus and mouth. Also called regurgitation.
Reflux esophagitis
Irritation of the esophagus because stomach contents flow back into the esophagus.
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Recommended daily allowances
The federal government's recommendations for the minimum amounts of vitamins and minerals a person should eat each day.
Recovery Inn Of Menlo Park
The Recovery Inn Of Menlo Park is a hospital in San Mateo, California, United States.
Recovery room
A room designed to accommodate a woman's labor, delivery, and recovery.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Radionuclide ventriculography
A diagnostic procedure used to determine the shape and size of the heart's chambers.
Radiopharmaceutical
Also tracer or radionuclide. Basic radioactively tagged compound necessary to produce a nuclear medicine image.
Radiosurgery
A radiation therapy technique that uses a large number of narrow, precisely aimed, highly focused beams of ionising radiation. The beams are aimed from many directions circling the head and meet at a specific point.
Rape
Forced or manipulated nonconsensual sexual contact, including vaginal or anal intercourse, oral sex, or penetration with an object.
Rapid gastric emptying
A condition that occurs when food moves too fast from the stomach into the small intestine. Symptoms are nausea, pain, weakness, and sweating. This syndrome most often affects people who have had stomach operations. Also called dumping syndrome.
Reconstructive surgery
Rectal manometry
A test that uses a thin tube and balloon to measure pressure and movements of the rectal and anal sphincter muscles. Usually used to diagnose chronic constipation and fecal incontinence.
Rectal prolapse
A condition in which the rectum slips so that it protrudes from the anus.
Rectocele
Condition in which weakening of the lower vaginal wall causes the rectum to bulge into the vagina.
Reflux
A condition that occurs when gastric juices or small amounts of food from the stomach flow back into the esophagus and mouth. Also called regurgitation.
Reflux esophagitis
Irritation of the esophagus because stomach contents flow back into the esophagus.
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