| refuge |
A safe place.
Ãâó: www.reefed.edu.au/glossary/r.html
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| refractory period |
the brief period right after the response of a cell to stimulation. Occurs after the cell is stimulated but just before it recovers the capacity to make another response. Basically, this is the resting period that happens once in each cycle of repeated stimulations
Ãâó: www.chfpatients.com/glossary_2.htm
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| refractory |
illness or symptom that does not respond to medicines or treatment; Can also refer to refractory period
Ãâó: www.chfpatients.com/glossary_2.htm
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| reflex |
Contraction of a muscle in response to tapping the tendon or guider with a reflex hammer; it requires intact sensory nerve supply to transmit the stretching of receptors in the muscle, and intact motor nerve supply for the muscle to contract.
Ãâó: sportsmedicine.about.com/library/glossary/blglossa...
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| reflex |
Involuntary movement elicited by activation of sensory receptors.
Ãâó: www.ualberta.ca/~neuro/OnlineIntro/glossary.htm
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