| RSS | rat stomach strip; rectosigmoidoscopy; Russell-Silver syndrome |
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| SRS | schizophrenic residual state; sex reassignment surgery; Silver-Russell syndrome; simple repeat seque... |
| VRV | ventricular residual volume; viper retrovirus |
| ASV | anodic stripping voltammetry; antisiphon valve; antisnake venom; avian sarcoma virus |
| BWSV | black widow spider venom |
| Brock, Sir Russell | <person> British surgeon, *1903. See: Brock's syndrome, Brock operation. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Russell, Albert | <person> U.S. Dentist, *1905. See: Russell's Periodontal Index. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Russell, Alexander | <person> 20th century British paediatrician. See: Russell's syndrome, Silver-Russell dwarfism, Silver-Russell syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Russell bodies | Small, discrete, variably sized, spherical, intracytoplasmic, acidophilic, hyaline body's that stain deeply with fuchsin; they occur frequently in plasma cells in chronic inflammation, where they are believed to consist of gamma-globulin. Synonym: fuchsin bodies. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Russell effect | The ability of an agent, other than light, to make a developable latent image in a photographic film emulsion. Synonym: Russell effect. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Russell, G | <person> 20th century English physician. See: Russell's sign. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Russell, Hamilton | <person> 20th century Australian surgeon. See: Russell traction. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Russell, James | <person> British physician, 1863-1939. See: hooked bundle of Russell, uncinate bundle of Russell. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Russell, Patrick | <person> Irish physician in India, 1727-1805. See: Russell's viper venom, Russell's viper. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Russell's Periodontal Index | An index that estimates the degree of periodontal disease present in the mouth by measuring both bone loss around the teeth and gingival inflammation; used frequently in the epidemiological investigation of periodontal disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Russell's sign | <clinical sign> Abrasions and scars on the back of the hands of individuals with bulimia, usually due to manual attempts at self-induced vomiting. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Russell's syndrome | <syndrome> Failure of infants and young children to thrive due to suprasellar lesions, commonly astrocytomas of the anterior third ventricle; although the growth hormone may be elevated, the child is emaciated and has loss of body fat. See: pseudohydrocephaly. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Russell traction | An improvement of Buck's extension that permits the resultant vector of the applied traction force to be changed, for fractures of the femur. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Russell, William | <person> Scottish physician, 1852-1940. See: Russell bodies. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Russell, William James | <person> English chemist, 1830-1909. See: Russell effect. (05 Mar 2000) |