| RV | random variable; rat virus; Rauscher virus; rectovaginal; reinforcement value; renal vein; residual ... |
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| RVA | re-entrant ventricular arrhythmia; right ventricle activation; right vertebral artery |
| RVEF | right ventricular ejection fraction; right ventricular end-flow |
| RVF | renal vascular failure; Rift Valley fever; right ventricular failure; right visual field |
| RVG | right ventral glutens [muscle]; right visceral ganglion |
| right duct of caudate lobe | The bile duct from the right half of the caudate lobe, a tributary to the right hepatic duct. Synonym: ductus lobi caudati dexter. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| right-eyed | Rarely used term for indicating right ocular dominance; denoting one who prefers the right eye in monocular work, such as microscopy. Synonym: right-eyed. Origin: dextro-+ L. Oculus, eye (05 Mar 2000) |
| right fibrous trigone | Part of the fibrous skeleton of the heart located between the aortic fibrous ring and rings surrounding the right and left atrioventricular ostia. Synonym: trigonum fibrosum dextrum. (05 Mar 2000) |
| right-footed | Denoting one who uses the right leg in preference to the left. Synonym: right-footed. Origin: dextro-+ L. Pes (ped-), foot (05 Mar 2000) |
| right gastric artery | <anatomy, artery> Origin, hepatic; distribution, pyloric portion of stomach on the lesser curvature; anastomoses, left gastric. Synonym: arteria gastrica dextra, pyloric artery. (05 Mar 2000) |
| right gastric vein | <anatomy, vein> It receives veins from both surfaces of the upper portion of the stomach, runs to the right along the lesser curvature of the stomach, and empties into the portal vein. Synonym: vena gastrica dextra, pyloric vein. (05 Mar 2000) |
| right gastroepiploic artery | <anatomy, artery> Origin, gastroduodenal; distribution, greater curvature and walls of stomach and greater omentum; anastomoses, frequently unites with left gastroepiploic, and branches from this arch anastomose with branches of right and left gastric. Synonym: arteria gastro-omentalis dextra, arteria gastroepiploica dextra, right gastro-omental artery. (05 Mar 2000) |
| right gastroepiploic vein | <anatomy, vein> A tributary of the superior mesenteric vein that parallels the right gastroepiploic artery along the greater curvature of the stomach. Synonym: vena gastro-omentalis dextra, right gastroomental vein. (05 Mar 2000) |
| right gastro-omental artery | <anatomy, artery> Origin, gastroduodenal; distribution, greater curvature and walls of stomach and greater omentum; anastomoses, frequently unites with left gastroepiploic, and branches from this arch anastomose with branches of right and left gastric. Synonym: arteria gastro-omentalis dextra, arteria gastroepiploica dextra, right gastro-omental artery. (05 Mar 2000) |
| right gastroomental vein | <anatomy, vein> A tributary of the superior mesenteric vein that parallels the right gastroepiploic artery along the greater curvature of the stomach. Synonym: vena gastro-omentalis dextra, right gastroomental vein. (05 Mar 2000) |
| right-handed | 1. Using the right hand habitually, or more easily or skillful than the left. 2. Having the same direction or course as the movement of the hands of a watch seen in front; said of the motion of a revolving object looked at from a given direction. 3. <marine biology> Having the whorls rising from left to right; dextral; said of spiral shells. Synonym: dextral, dextromanual. Source: Websters Dictionary (21 Jun 2000) |
| right heart | The right atrium and right ventricle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| right heart bypass | Introduction of a circuit shunting blood from the venae cavae around the right atrium and ventricle and directly into the pulmonary artery. (05 Mar 2000) |
| right-hearted | Having a right heart or disposition. Right"-heartedness. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| right hepatic artery | <anatomy, artery> Right branch of proper hepatic artery; terminal branch of proper hepatic artery supplying right lobe of liver; branch: cystic artery. Synonym: ramus dexter arteriae hepaticae propriae, right branch of proper hepatic artery. (05 Mar 2000) |