| Ricco | Annibale, Italian astrophysicist. Lived: 1844-1919. See: Ricco's law. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Ricco's law | <physics> For small images, light intensity X area = constant for the threshold. (05 Mar 2000) |
| rice | <botany> A well-known cereal grass (Oryza sativa) and its seed. This plant is extensively cultivated in warm climates, and the grain forms a large portion of the food of the inhabitants. In America it grows chiefly on low, moist land, which can be overflowed. Ant rice. <botany> A small beetle (Calandra, or Sitophilus, oryzae) which destroys rice, wheat, and Indian corn by eating out the interior. Synonym: black weevil. Origin: F. Riz (cf. Pr. Ris, It. Riso), L. Oryza, Gr, probably from the Persian; cf. OPers. Brizi, akin to Skr. Vrihi; or perh. Akin to E. Rye. Cf. Rye. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| rice body | One of the small, loose body's found in hygromas, tendon sheaths, and joints. (05 Mar 2000) |
| rice diet | A diet of rice, fruit, and sugar, plus vitamin and iron supplements, devised by Kempner to treat hypertension. In 2,000 calories, the diet contains 5 gm or less of fat, about 20 gm of protein, and not more than 150 mg of sodium. Synonym: Kempner diet. (05 Mar 2000) |
| rice disease | Beriberi, the original outbreaks of which were caused by feeding people rice from which the husks had been removed (polished rice), decreasing the vitamin B1 content of the rice. (05 Mar 2000) |
| rice itch | Schistosomiasis caused by schistosoma japonicum. It is endemic in the far east and affects the bowel, liver, and spleen. (12 Dec 1998) |
| rice-field fever | A febrile illness affecting workers in rice fields, reported in Po valley in Italy and in Sumatra, caused by infection with a species of Leptospira. (05 Mar 2000) |
| rice-shell | <zoology> Any one of numerous species of small white polished marine shells of the genus Olivella. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| rice-Tween agar | A useful medium for the development of the differential chlamydospores in Candida albicans and for preparation of slide cultures for other forms of sporulation in other fungal species. (05 Mar 2000) |
| rice-water stool | A watery fluid containing whitish flocculi, discharged from the bowel in cholera and occasionally in other cases of serous diarrhoea. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ricebird | <ornithology> The Java sparrow. The bobolink. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| rich | 1. Having an abundance of material possessions; possessed of a large amount of property; well supplied with land, goods, or money; wealthy; opulent; affluent; opposed to poor. "Rich merchants." "The rich [person] hath many friends." (Prov. Xiv. 20) "As a thief, bent to unhoard the cash Of some rich burgher." (Milton) 2. Hence, in general, well supplied; abounding; abundant; copious; bountiful; as, a rich treasury; a rich entertainment; a rich crop. "If life be short, it shall be glorious; Each minute shall be rich in some great action." (Rowe) "The gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold." (Milton) 3. Yielding large returns; productive or fertile; fruitful; as, rich soil or land; a rich mine. 4. Composed of valuable or costly materials or ingredients; procured at great outlay; highly valued; precious; sumptuous; costly; as, a rich dress; rich silk or fur; rich presents. "Like to rich and various gems." (Milton) 5. Abounding in agreeable or nutritive qualities; especially applied to articles of food or drink which are high-seasoned or abound in oleaginous ingredients, or are sweet, luscious, and high-flavored; as, a rich dish; rich cream or soup; rich pastry; rich wine or fruit. "Sauces and rich spices are fetched from India." (Baker) 6. Not faint or delicate; vivid; as, a rich colour. 7. Full of sweet and harmonius sounds; as, a rich voice; rich music. 8. Abounding in beauty; gorgeous; as, a rich landscape; rich scenery. 9. Abounding in humor; exciting amusement; entertaining; as, the scene was a rich one; a rich incident or character. Rich is sometimes used in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, rich-fleeced, rich-jeweled, rich-laden, rich-stained. Synonym: Wealthy, affluent, opulent, ample, copious, abundant, plentiful, fruitful, costly, sumptuous, precious, generous, luscious. Origin: OE. Riche, AS. Rice rich, powerful; akin to OS. Riki, D. Rijk, G. Reich, OHG. Rihhi, Icel. Rikr, Sw. Rik, Dan. Rig, Goth. Reiks; from a word meaning, ruler, king, probably borrowed from Celtic, and akin to L. Rex, regis, king, regere to guide, rule. See Right, and cf. Derrick, Enrich, Rajah, Riches, Royal. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Richard | Felix Adolphe, Paris surgeon, 1822-1872. See: Richard's fringes. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Richard's fringes | The irregularly branched or fringed processes surrounding the ampulla at the abdominal opening of the uterine tube; most of the lining epithelial cells have cilia that beat toward the uterus. Synonym: fimbriae tubae uterinae, laciniae tubae, Richard's fringes. (05 Mar 2000) |