| ort-a-cath | A device surgically implanted under the skin, usually on the chest, that enters a large blood vessel and is used to deliver medication, chemotherapy, blood products and also is used to obtain blood samples. A port is usually inserted if a person has veins in the arm which are difficult to use for treatment or if certain types of chemotherapy drugs are to be given. (09 Oct 1997) |
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| Marie-Robinson syndrome | <syndrome> Insomnia and mild melancholia associated with alimentary levulosuria. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Robinson, Andrew | <person> U.S. Dermatologist, 1845-1924. See: Robinson's disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Robinson, Brian | <person> 20th century British cardiologist. See: Robinson index. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Robinson catheter | A straight urethral catheter with two to six holes to facilitate drainage, especially in the presence of blood clots which may occlude one or more openings. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Robinson index | An index used to calculate heart work load. See: double product. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Robinson, Robert | <person> U.S. Orthopedic surgeon, *1914. See: Smith-Robinson operation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Robinson's disease | Ohbsolete term for hidrocystoma(s) occurring in the skin of the face, especially in the region of the eyes. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Smith-Robinson operation | Interbody spinal fusion through an anterior cervical approach. (05 Mar 2000) |
| blue rubber-bleb nevi | A syndrome characterised by erectile, easily compressible, thin-walled haemangiomatous nodules, widely distributed in the skin and in the alimentary canal, and sometimes in other tissues; lesions in the gut may perforate or cause haemorrhage, and the patient may be anaemic from continual bleeding. (05 Mar 2000) |
| blue rubber bleb nevus syndrome | <radiology> Bean syndrome, sporadic (some autosomal dominant), rubbery, raised blue-black skin nevi (cavernous haemangiomata, 0.1 - 5 cm), GI mucosal haemangiomata, bowel: polypoid filling defects of varying sizes, visceral haemangiomata (by angio) associated with: leukaemia, medulloblastoma, hypernephroma, Mafucci syndrome More info: blue rubber bleb nevus syndrome (12 Dec 1998) |
| rubber | 1. One who, or that which, rubs. Specifically: An instrument or thing used in rubbing, polishing, or cleaning. A coarse file, or the rough part of a file. A whetstone; a rubstone. An eraser, usually made of caoutchouc. The cushion of an electrical machine. One who performs massage, especially in a Turkish bath. Something that chafes or annoys; hence, something that grates on the feelings; a sarcasm; a rub. 2. In some games, as whist, the odd game, as the third or the fifth, when there is a tie between the players; as, to play the rubber; also, a contest determined by the winning of two out of three games; as, to play a rubber of whist. "A rubber of cribbage." 3. India rubber; caoutchouc. 4. An overshoe made of India rubber. Antimony rubber, an elastic durable variety of vulcanised caoutchouc of a red colour. It contains antimony sulphide as an important constituent. Hard rubber, a kind of vulcanised caoutchouc which nearly resembles horn in texture, rigidity, etc. India rubber, caoutchouc. See Caoutchouc. Rubber cloth, cloth covered with caoutchouc for excluding water or moisture. <dentistry> Rubber dam, a shield of thin sheet rubber clasped around a tooth to exclude saliva from the tooth. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| rubber-bulb syringe | A syringe with a hollow rubber bulb and cannula provided with a check valve, used to obtain a jet of air or water. (05 Mar 2000) |
| rubber dam | In surgery, thin strips of rubber used as a surgical drain or barrier, a thin sheet of rubber with holes that is placed over teeth to isolate them from the oral cavity. (05 Mar 2000) |
| rubber dam clamp | A springlike metal piece encircling or grasping the cervix of a tooth and so shaped as to prevent a rubber dam from coming off the tooth. (05 Mar 2000) |