Category: R

Splint designed to position the fingers and stabilize the hand in a functional position with the fingers held in opposition. Also called resting hand splint.  

At risk for an altered sense of integration with life and the universe in which dimensions that transcend and empower the self may be disrupted.  

A release of radioactive materials into the environment.  

The space behind the pharynx separating prevertebral from visceral fascia. Important as a possible path for the spread of infection from oral cavity trauma downward to visceral organs of the mediastinum.  

The potential space outside the parietal peritoneum of the abdominal cavity.  

Any sound heard over the lungs, bronchi, or trachea. Any noise perceived when a stethoscope is positioned over any part of the respiratory tract.  

A sling made as follows: A triangular bandage is applied with one end over the injured shoulder, point toward the sound side, the base vertical under the injured elbow. The arm is flexed acutely over the triangle. The lower end is brought upward over the front of the arm and over the sound shoulder. The…

The movement of blood or other body fluids backward through a shunt. The shunted blood has no opportunity to become oxygenated because of failure to pass through the lungs.  

One of the layers of a hair follicle derived from the epidermis. It includes the outer root sheath, which is a continuation of the stratum germinativum, and the inner root sheath, which consists of three layers of cells that closely invest the root of the hair.  

A strong fibrous sleeve in which the rectus abdominis and pyramidalis muscles contract. The sheath is formed from the aponeuroses of the abdominal wall muscles as they meet in the linea alba at the abdominal midline.