| resting wandering cell | A relatively immotile macrophage found in connective tissue, lymph nodes, spleen, and bone marrow. Synonym: resting wandering cell. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| restitope | The part of the T-cell receptor that associates with the class II major histocompatibility molecule. Origin: restriction + -tope (05 Mar 2000) |
| restitution | 1. The act of restoring anything to its rightful owner, or of making good, or of giving an equivalent for any loss, damage, or injury; indemnification. "A restitution of ancient rights unto the crown." (Spenser) "He restitution to the value makes." (Sandys) 2. That which is offered or given in return for what has been lost, injured, or destroved; compensation. 3. <physics> The act of returning to, or recovering, a former state; as, the restitution of an elastic body. 4. <medicine> The movement of rotetion which usually occurs in childbirth after the head has been delivered, and which causes the latter to point towards the side to which it was directed at the beginning of labour. Synonym: Restoration, return, indemnification, reparation, compensation, amends, remuneration. Origin: F. Restitution, L. Restitutio. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| restless | 1. Never resting; unquiet; uneasy; continually moving; as, a restless child. "Restless revolution day by day." 2. Not satisfied to be at rest or in peace; averse to repose or quiet; eager for change; discontented; as, restless schemers; restless ambition; restless subjects. "Restless at home, and ever prone to range." 3. Deprived of rest or sleep. "Restless he passed the remnants of the night." (Dryden) 4. Passed in unquietness; as, the patient has had a restless night. 5. Not affording rest; as, a restless chair. Restless thrush. <zoology> See Grinder. Synonym: Unquiet, uneasy, disturbed, disquieted, sleepless, agitated, unsettled, roving, wandering. Origin: AS. Restleas. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| restless legs | Legs characterised by or showing inability to remain at rest. (18 Nov 1997) |
| restless legs syndrome | <syndrome> A sense of indescribable uneasiness, twitching, or restlessness that occurs in the legs after going to bed, frequently leading to insomnia, which may be relieved temporarily by walking about; thought to be caused by inadequate circulation or as a side effect of antipsychotic medication. See: akathisia. Synonym: Ekbom syndrome, restless legs. (05 Mar 2000) |
| restoration | Measures undertaken to return a degraded ecosystem's functions and values, including its hydrology, plant and animal communities, and/or portions thereof, to a less degraded ecological condition. (09 Oct 1997) |
| restoration measure | <ecology> A restoration measure consists of one or more features or activities, at a geographic site, that is intended to cause a desirable change in an ecological resource and results in a positive environmental output. Many restoration measures are combinations of several features and activities. (10 Mar 1998) |
| restorative | <alchemy> Something which serves to restore; especially, a restorative medicine. (10 Mar 1998) |
| restorative dental materials | Material's used to replace oral tissues in dentistry; e.g., amalgam, gold alloys, cements, porcelain, plastics, and denture material's. (05 Mar 2000) |
| restorative dentistry | Usually, the individual restoration of teeth by means of metallic or nonmetallic materials. Synonym: restorative dentistry. (05 Mar 2000) |
| restore | To renew, rebuild, or reconstruct to a former state. (09 Oct 1997) |
| restored cycle | An atrial or ventricular cardiac cycle that follows the returning cycle and resumes the normal rhythm. (05 Mar 2000) |
| restrain | 1. To draw back again; to hold back from acting, proceeding, or advancing, either by physical or moral force, or by any interposing obstacle; to repress or suppress; to keep down; to curb. "Restrain in me the cursed thoughts that nature Gives way to in repose!" (Shak) 2. To draw back toghtly, as a rein. 3. To hinder from unlimited enjoiment; to abridge. "Though they two were committed, at least restrained of their liberty." (Clarendon) 4. To limit; to confine; to restrict. "Not only a metaphysical or natural, but a moral, universality also is to be restrained by a part of the predicate." (I. Watts) 5. To withhold; to forbear. "Thou restrained prayer before God." (Job. Xv. 4) Synonym: To check, hinder, stop, withhold, repress, curb, suppress, coerce, restrict, limit, confine. Origin: OE. Restreinen, F. Restreindre, fr. L. Restringere, restrictum; pref. Re- re- + stringere to draw, bind, or press together. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| restrained beam | In dentistry, a beam that has two or more supports, at least one of which permits some freedom of rotation to the point of support but not as much as if the support were a free support. (05 Mar 2000) |