Category: R

One of the small ridges on the inner surface of the vagina extending laterally and upward from the columna rugarum (long ridges on the anterior and posterior walls).  

A fold or crease, especially one of the folds of mucous membrane on the internal surface of the stomach.  

One of the encapsulated sensory nerve endings found in the dermis and subcutaneous tissue, once thought to mediate the sense of warmth, now believed to be a pressure receptor.  

A small bundle of nerve fibers in the lateral funiculus of the spinal cord. Fibers arise in the cells of the red nucleus of the midbrain and terminate in the ventral horn of the gray matter.  

Law of constant energy consumption: rapidity of growth is proportional to intensity of the metabolic process.  

A condition in which new blood vessels form on the anterior surface of the iris. Neovascularization is associated with diabetic retinopathy and central retinal vein occlusion. It can lead to neovascular glaucoma that is difficult to treat.  

A blood test to determine a person’s immune status to rubella.  

A conceptual model of nursing developed by Callista Roy. Individuals and groups are adaptive systems with physiological/physical, self-concept/group identity, role function, and interdependence modes of response to focal, contextual, and residual environmental stimuli. The goal of nursing is promotion of adaptation through increasing, decreasing, maintaining, removing, altering, or changing environmental stimuli.  

An anastomosis of the distal divided end of the small bowel to another organ such as the stomach, pancreas, or esophagus. The proximal end is anastomosed to the small bowel below the anastomosis.  

A regularly performed behavioral sequence.