| Recklinghausen's disease type I | type 2 neurofibromatosis |
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| Recklinghausen's tumour | A small, circumscribed, benign tumour of the genital tract, composed of small glandlike spaces lined by flattened or cuboidal mesothelium-like cells. (12 Dec 1998) |
| reckoning | 1. The act of one who reckons, counts, or computes; the result of reckoning or counting; calculation. Specifically: An account of time. Adjustment of claims and accounts; settlement of obligations, liabilities, etc. "Even reckoning makes lasting friends, and the way to make reckonings even is to make them often." (South) "He quitted London, never to return till the day of a terrible and memorable reckoning had arrived." (Macaulay) 2. The charge or account made by a host at an inn. "A coin would have a nobler use than to pay a reckoning." (Addison) 3. Esteem; account; estimation. "You make no further reckoning of it [beauty] than of an outward fading benefit nature bestowed." (Sir P. Sidney) 4. <astronomy> The calculation of a ship's position, either from astronomical observations, or from the record of the courses steered and distances sailed as shown by compass and log, in the latter case called dead reckoning (see under Dead); also used fro dead reckoning in contradistinction to observation. The position of a ship as determined by calculation. To be out of her reckoning, to be at a distance from the place indicated by the reckoning; said of a ship. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| reclaim | 1. To call back, as a hawk to the wrist in falconry, by a certain customary call. 2. To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting. "The headstrong horses hurried Octavius . . . Along, and were deaf to his reclaiming them." (Dryden) 3. To reduce from a wild to a tamed state; to bring under discipline; said especially of birds trained for the chase, but also of other animals. "An eagle well reclaimed." 4. Hence: To reduce to a desired state by discipline, labour, cultivation, or the like; to rescue from being wild, desert, waste, submerged, or the like; as, to reclaim wild land, overflowed land, etc. 5. To call back to rectitude from moral wandering or transgression; to draw back to correct deportment or course of life; to reform. "It is the intention of Providence, in all the various expressions of his goodness, to reclaim mankind." (Rogers) 6. To correct; to reform; said of things. "Your error, in time reclaimed, will be venial." (Sir E. Hoby) 7. To exclaim against; to gainsay. Synonym: To reform, recover, restore, amend, correct. Origin: F. Reclamer, L. Reclamare, reclamatum, to cry out against; pref. Re- re- + clamare to call or cry aloud. See Claim. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| reclamation | The engineering of derelict terrain so that it can be used for some purpose. The combined process of land treatment that minimizes water degradation, air pollution, damage to aquatic or wildlife habitat, flooding, erosion, and other adverse effects from surface mining operations, including adverse surface effects incidental to underground mines, so that mined lands are reclaimed to a usable condition which is readily adaptable for alternate land uses and create no danger to public health or safety. The process may extend to affected lands surrounding mined lands, and may require backfilling, grading, resoiling, revegetation, soil compaction, stabilisation, or other measures. (09 Oct 1997) |
| reclinate | <botany> Reclined, as a leaf; bent downward, so that the point, as of a stem or leaf, is lower than the base. Origin: L. Reclinatus, p. P. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| reclination | 1. The act of leaning or reclining, or the state of being reclined. 2. The angle which the plane of the dial makes with a vertical plane which it intersects in a horizontal line. 3. <surgery> The act or process of removing a cataract, by applying the needle to its anterior surface, and depressing it into the vitreous humor in such a way that front surface of the cataract becomes the upper one and its back surface the lower one. Origin: Cf. F. Reclinaison. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| reclined | <botany> Falling or turned downward; reclinate. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| reclining | <botany> Bending or curving gradually back from the perpendicular. Recumbent. Reclining dial, a dial whose plane is inclined to the vertical line through its center. <mathematics> . Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| reclotting phenomenon | The property of certain gels of becoming less viscous when shaken or subjected to shearing forces and returning to the original viscosity upon standing (e.g., synovial fluid, ferrous hydroxide gel); a characteristic of a system exhibiting a decrease in viscosity with an increase in the rate of shear, usually a function of time. Synonym: reclotting phenomenon. Origin: G. Thixis, a touching, + trope, turning (05 Mar 2000) |
| recognition factors | Factors which effect "recognition" of target antigens by polymorphonuclear leukocytes; apparently the Fc portion of antibody molecules and the activated third component of complement (C3), for both of which phagocytes have receptor sites. (05 Mar 2000) |
| recognition sequence | A nucleotide sequence --typically composed of 4, 6, or 8nucleotides -- that is recognised by a restriction endonuclease. Type II enzymes cut (and theircorresponding modification enzymes methylate) within or very near the recognition sequence. (09 Oct 1997) |
| recognition time | The interval between the application of a stimulus and the recognition of its nature. (05 Mar 2000) |
| recoil | 1. A starting or falling back; a rebound; a shrinking; as, the recoil of nature, or of the blood. 2. The state or condition of having recoiled. "The recoil from formalism is skepticism." (F. W. Robertson) 3. Specifically, the reaction or rebounding of a firearm when discharged. Recoil dynamometer, an instrument for measuring the force of the recoil of a firearm. Recoil escapement See the Note under Escapement. 1. To start, roll, bound, spring, or fall back; to take a reverse motion; to be driven or forced backward; to return. "Evil on itself shall back recoil." (Milton) "The solemnity of her demeanor made it impossible . . . That we should recoil into our ordinary spirits." (De Quincey) 2. To draw back, as from anything repugnant, distressing, alarming, or the like; to shrink. 3. To turn or go back; to withdraw one's self; to retire. "To your bowers recoil." Origin: OE. Recoilen, F. Reculer, fr. L. Pref. Re- re- + culus the fundament. The English word was perhaps influenced in form by accoil. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| recoil atom | The remainder of an atom from which a nuclear particle has been emitted or ejected at high velocity; the remainder recoils with a velocity inversely proportional to its mass. (05 Mar 2000) |