| 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) |
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| 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-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 itch | Schistosomiasis caused by schistosoma japonicum. It is endemic in the far east and affects the bowel, liver, and spleen. (12 Dec 1998) |
| 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) |
| alcoholic hyaline bodies | Large, poorly defined accumulations of eosinophilic material in the cytoplasm of damaged hepatic cells in certain forms of cirrhosis and marked fatty change especially due to alcoholism. Synonym: alcoholic hyalin, alcoholic hyaline bodies. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Alder bodies | Granular inclusions in polymorphonuclear leukocytes; they take on a dark colour with Giemsa-Wright stain and react metachromatically with toluidine blue. See: Alder's anomaly. (05 Mar 2000) |
| amyloid bodies of the prostate | An obsolete term for small masses of colloid material often present in the tubules of the gland. See: corpus amylaceum. (05 Mar 2000) |
| aortic bodies | Small clusters of chemoreceptive and supporting cells located near the aortic arch, the pulmonary arteries, and the coronary arteries. The aortic bodies sense pH, carbon dioxide, and oxygen concentrations in the blood and participate in the control of respiration. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Arnold's bodies | Small portions or minute fragments of erythrocytes (sometimes mistaken for blood platelets), or small "ghosts" of erythrocytes. (05 Mar 2000) |
| asbestos bodies | Ferruginous body's with asbestos fibres as a core; a histologic hallmark of exposure to asbestos. (05 Mar 2000) |