| radiation therapy |
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noun - (medicine) the use of ionizing radiation to treat disease, especially cancer
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| radiology |
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noun - (medicine) the use of radioactive substances in diagnosis and treatment
- (medicine) the use of radiation (including ionizing radiation, especially X-rays) in diagnosis, usually through the formation of images
- radioscopy
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| radiotherapy |
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noun (radiotherapies)
- The therapeutic use of ionizing radiation. Radiotherapy is almost exclusively used for the treatment of malignant disease.
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| Ray |
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proper noun
- (given name, male), a diminutive of Raymond.
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| recuperate |
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verb (recuperat, es)
- To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness.
- (sociology) To co-opt subversive ideas for mainstream use
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| reflexology |
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noun (plural reflexologies)
- (medicine) The study and interpretation of behavior in terms of simple and complex reflexes.
- (medicine) A form of complementary medicine involving the stimulation of points on the feet, hands, or ears, in the belief that it will have a beneficial effect on some other parts of the body or to improve general health.
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| regimen |
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noun
- Orderly government; system of order; administration.
- Any regulation or remedy which is intended to produce beneficial effects by gradual operation
- (grammar) A syntactical relation between words, as when one depends on another and is regulated by it in respect to case or mood; government.
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| regression |
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noun
- an action of regressing, a return to a previous state
- 1899: Thorstein Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class
- :Few of these groups or communities that are classed as "savage" show no traces of from a more advanced cultural stage.
- (statistics) an analytic method to measure the relationship between two variables
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| reject |
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noun
- Something that is rejected.
- (derogatory slang) An unpopular person.
verb
- (transitive) to refuse to accept
- She even rejected my improved offer.
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| remedy |
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noun (remedies)
- Something that corrects or counteracts.
- The legal means to recover a right or to prevent or obtain redress for a wrong.
- A medicine, application, or treatment that relieves or cures a disease.
verb (remedies, remedying, remedied, remedied)
- (transitive) To provide or serve as a remedy for.
- 1748. David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 27.
- : Nor is geometry, when taken into the assistance of natural philosophy, ever able to this defect,
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| residual |
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noun (plural residuals)
- a remainder left over at the end of some process
- (in plural) payments made to performers, writers and directors when a recorded broadcast is repeated
adjective
- of, relating to, or remaining as a residue
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| resolution |
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noun
- The state of being resolute.
- His stalwart resolution is perhaps admirable, perhaps foolish.
- A statement of intent, a vow (often New Year's resolution).
- My resolution is to cut back on the fast food this year.
- The act of discerning detail.
- (computing) The degree of fineness with which an image can be recorded or produced, often expressed as the number of pixels per unit of length (typically an inch).
- Printing at higher resolution will cause a reduction in performance.
- (context, computer hardware) The number of pixels in an image that are stored or displayed.
- This monitor's maximum resolution is 800x600.
- A formal statement adopted by an assembly.
- (science) The separation of the constituent parts (of a spectrum etc).
- (science) The degree of fineness of such a separation.
- (music) Progression from dissonance to consonance; a chord to which such progression is made.
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| resonance |
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noun
- The condition of being resonant.
- Something that evokes an association, or a strong emotion.
- (physics) The increase in the amplitude of an oscillation of a system under the influence of a periodic force whose frequency is close to that of the system's natural frequency.
- (context, nuclear physics) A short-lived subatomic particle that cannot be observed directly.
- 2004: When experiments with the first "atom-smashers" took place in the 1950s to 1960s, many short-lived heavier siblings of the proton and neutron, known as "resonances", were discovered. " Frank Close, Particle Physics: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford 2004, p. 35)
- An increase in the strength or duration of a musical tone produced by sympathetic vibration.
- (chemistry) The property of a compound that can be visualized as having two structures differing only in the distribution of electrons.
(rfc, reword/combine definitions - should be three?)
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| resonate |
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verb (resonat, ing)
- To vibrate or sound, especially in response to another vibration.
- The books on top of the piano when he plays certain notes.
- To have an effect or impact; to influence; to engender support.
- His words resonated with the crowd.
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| resorb |
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verb to resorb (transitive or intransitive)
- to absorb (something) again
- to undergo resorption
- (biology) to dissolve something and assimilate it
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| respirometer |
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noun
- A device used to measure the rate of respiration of plants
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| restorative |
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noun
- Something believed to have restoring properties
adjective
- Of or pertaining to restoring.
- After a long day working in the fields Clarance took comfort in a pint of beer.
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| restore |
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verb (restor, ing)
- (transitive): To reestablish, or bring back into existence.
- (transitive): To bring back to a previous condition or state.
- (transitive): To give back, or make restitution.
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| resuscitate |
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verb (resuscitat, ing)
- (transitive) To restore consciousness, vigor, or life to.
- (intransitive) To regain consciousness.
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| revive |
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verb (reviv, ing)
- To return to life; to recover life or strength; to live anew; to become reanimated or reinvigorated.
- The Lord heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into again, and he revived. 1 Kings xvii. 22.
- Hence, to recover from a state of oblivion, obscurity, neglect, or depression; as, classical learning revived in the fifteenth century.
- To recover its natural or metallic state, as a metal.
- To restore, or bring again to life; to reanimate.
- To raise from coma, languor, depression, or discouragement; to bring into action after a suspension.
- Hence, to recover from a state of neglect or disuse; as, to revive letters or learning.
- To renew in the mind or memory; to bring to recollection; to recall attention to; to reawaken.
- To restore or reduce to its natural or metallic state; as, to revive a metal after calcination.
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| revulsion |
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noun
- abhorrence, a sense of loathing, intense aversion, repugnance, repulsion, horror
- A sudden violent feeling of disgust.
- (medicine) The treatment of one diseased area by acting elsewhere; counterirritation.
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| rheometer |
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noun
- A device used to measure the flow properties of fluids with variable viscosity.
- (context, formerly) A device used to measure the flow of electric current: an ammeter
- (context, now, _, rare) A flowmeter, especially for water or blood.
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| rheumatologist |
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noun (Plural: rheumatologists)
- A doctor specializing in the treatment of arthritis and other ailments of the joints.
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| rheumatology |
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noun - The branch of medicine specializing in arthritis and other ailments of the joints.
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| roentgenotherapy |
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noun
- the therapeutic use of X-rays
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| roller |
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noun (wikipedia, roller, roller (bird))
- anything that rolls
- any rotate, rotating cylindrical device that is part of a machine, especially one used to apply or reduce pressure
- (cricket) a heavy rolling device used to flatten the surface of the pitch
- a large, wide, curling wave that falls back on itself as it breaks on a coast
- a cylindrical tool for applying paint or ink
- an agricultural machine used for flattening land and breaking up lumps of earth
- a tumble, tumbling pigeon
- any of various aggressive birds, of the family Coraciidae, having bright blue wings and hooked beaks
- (also written Roller) a car made by Rolls-Royce
- the police (old blues slang)
- a padded surcingle that is used on horses for training and vaulting
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| radiation therapy |
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noun - (medicine) the use of ionizing radiation to treat disease, especially cancer
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| radiology |
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noun - (medicine) the use of radioactive substances in diagnosis and treatment
- (medicine) the use of radiation (including ionizing radiation, especially X-rays) in diagnosis, usually through the formation of images
- radioscopy
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| radiotherapy |
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noun (radiotherapies)
- The therapeutic use of ionizing radiation. Radiotherapy is almost exclusively used for the treatment of malignant disease.
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| Ray |
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proper noun
- (given name, male), a diminutive of Raymond.
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| recuperate |
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verb (recuperat, es)
- To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness.
- (sociology) To co-opt subversive ideas for mainstream use
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| reflexology |
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noun (plural reflexologies)
- (medicine) The study and interpretation of behavior in terms of simple and complex reflexes.
- (medicine) A form of complementary medicine involving the stimulation of points on the feet, hands, or ears, in the belief that it will have a beneficial effect on some other parts of the body or to improve general health.
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| regimen |
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noun
- Orderly government; system of order; administration.
- Any regulation or remedy which is intended to produce beneficial effects by gradual operation
- (grammar) A syntactical relation between words, as when one depends on another and is regulated by it in respect to case or mood; government.
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| regression |
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noun
- an action of regressing, a return to a previous state
- 1899: Thorstein Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class
- :Few of these groups or communities that are classed as "savage" show no traces of from a more advanced cultural stage.
- (statistics) an analytic method to measure the relationship between two variables
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| reject |
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noun
- Something that is rejected.
- (derogatory slang) An unpopular person.
verb
- (transitive) to refuse to accept
- She even rejected my improved offer.
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| remedy |
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noun (remedies)
- Something that corrects or counteracts.
- The legal means to recover a right or to prevent or obtain redress for a wrong.
- A medicine, application, or treatment that relieves or cures a disease.
verb (remedies, remedying, remedied, remedied)
- (transitive) To provide or serve as a remedy for.
- 1748. David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 27.
- : Nor is geometry, when taken into the assistance of natural philosophy, ever able to this defect,
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| residual |
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noun (plural residuals)
- a remainder left over at the end of some process
- (in plural) payments made to performers, writers and directors when a recorded broadcast is repeated
adjective
- of, relating to, or remaining as a residue
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| resolution |
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noun
- The state of being resolute.
- His stalwart resolution is perhaps admirable, perhaps foolish.
- A statement of intent, a vow (often New Year's resolution).
- My resolution is to cut back on the fast food this year.
- The act of discerning detail.
- (computing) The degree of fineness with which an image can be recorded or produced, often expressed as the number of pixels per unit of length (typically an inch).
- Printing at higher resolution will cause a reduction in performance.
- (context, computer hardware) The number of pixels in an image that are stored or displayed.
- This monitor's maximum resolution is 800x600.
- A formal statement adopted by an assembly.
- (science) The separation of the constituent parts (of a spectrum etc).
- (science) The degree of fineness of such a separation.
- (music) Progression from dissonance to consonance; a chord to which such progression is made.
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| resonance |
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noun
- The condition of being resonant.
- Something that evokes an association, or a strong emotion.
- (physics) The increase in the amplitude of an oscillation of a system under the influence of a periodic force whose frequency is close to that of the system's natural frequency.
- (context, nuclear physics) A short-lived subatomic particle that cannot be observed directly.
- 2004: When experiments with the first "atom-smashers" took place in the 1950s to 1960s, many short-lived heavier siblings of the proton and neutron, known as "resonances", were discovered. " Frank Close, Particle Physics: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford 2004, p. 35)
- An increase in the strength or duration of a musical tone produced by sympathetic vibration.
- (chemistry) The property of a compound that can be visualized as having two structures differing only in the distribution of electrons.
(rfc, reword/combine definitions - should be three?)
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| resonate |
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verb (resonat, ing)
- To vibrate or sound, especially in response to another vibration.
- The books on top of the piano when he plays certain notes.
- To have an effect or impact; to influence; to engender support.
- His words resonated with the crowd.
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| resorb |
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verb to resorb (transitive or intransitive)
- to absorb (something) again
- to undergo resorption
- (biology) to dissolve something and assimilate it
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| respirometer |
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noun
- A device used to measure the rate of respiration of plants
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| restorative |
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noun
- Something believed to have restoring properties
adjective
- Of or pertaining to restoring.
- After a long day working in the fields Clarance took comfort in a pint of beer.
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| restore |
|
verb (restor, ing)
- (transitive): To reestablish, or bring back into existence.
- (transitive): To bring back to a previous condition or state.
- (transitive): To give back, or make restitution.
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| resuscitate |
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verb (resuscitat, ing)
- (transitive) To restore consciousness, vigor, or life to.
- (intransitive) To regain consciousness.
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| revive |
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verb (reviv, ing)
- To return to life; to recover life or strength; to live anew; to become reanimated or reinvigorated.
- The Lord heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into again, and he revived. 1 Kings xvii. 22.
- Hence, to recover from a state of oblivion, obscurity, neglect, or depression; as, classical learning revived in the fifteenth century.
- To recover its natural or metallic state, as a metal.
- To restore, or bring again to life; to reanimate.
- To raise from coma, languor, depression, or discouragement; to bring into action after a suspension.
- Hence, to recover from a state of neglect or disuse; as, to revive letters or learning.
- To renew in the mind or memory; to bring to recollection; to recall attention to; to reawaken.
- To restore or reduce to its natural or metallic state; as, to revive a metal after calcination.
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| revulsion |
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noun
- abhorrence, a sense of loathing, intense aversion, repugnance, repulsion, horror
- A sudden violent feeling of disgust.
- (medicine) The treatment of one diseased area by acting elsewhere; counterirritation.
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| rheometer |
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noun
- A device used to measure the flow properties of fluids with variable viscosity.
- (context, formerly) A device used to measure the flow of electric current: an ammeter
- (context, now, _, rare) A flowmeter, especially for water or blood.
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| rheumatologist |
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noun (Plural: rheumatologists)
- A doctor specializing in the treatment of arthritis and other ailments of the joints.
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| rheumatology |
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noun - The branch of medicine specializing in arthritis and other ailments of the joints.
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| roentgenotherapy |
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noun
- the therapeutic use of X-rays
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| roller |
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noun (wikipedia, roller, roller (bird))
- anything that rolls
- any rotate, rotating cylindrical device that is part of a machine, especially one used to apply or reduce pressure
- (cricket) a heavy rolling device used to flatten the surface of the pitch
- a large, wide, curling wave that falls back on itself as it breaks on a coast
- a cylindrical tool for applying paint or ink
- an agricultural machine used for flattening land and breaking up lumps of earth
- a tumble, tumbling pigeon
- any of various aggressive birds, of the family Coraciidae, having bright blue wings and hooked beaks
- (also written Roller) a car made by Rolls-Royce
- the police (old blues slang)
- a padded surcingle that is used on horses for training and vaulting
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