| REM | rapid eye movement; recent-event memory; reticular erythematous mucinosis; return electrode monitor;... |
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| REMS | rapid eye movement sleep |
| SOREM | sleep onset rapid eye movement |
| sREM | stage rapid eye movement |
| RAM | random-access memory; rapid alternating movements; rectus abdominis muscle; rectus abdominis myocuta... |
| cardinal ocular movements | Eye rotations to the right and left, upward to the right and left, and downward to the right and left, to diagnose positions of gaze. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| cogwheel ocular movements | Loose, jerky ocular rotations replacing smooth following rotations. (05 Mar 2000) |
| head movements | Voluntary or involuntary motion of head that may be relative to or independent of body; includes animals and humans. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Swedish movements | A form of kinesitherapy in which certain systematised movement's of the body and limbs are regulated by resistance made by an attendant. Synonym: Swedish gymnastics. (05 Mar 2000) |
| drift movements | Slow ocular movements of greater amplitude than flicks, occurring during ocular fixation. Synonym: drift movements. (05 Mar 2000) |
| intermediary movements | In dentistry, all movement's between the extremes of mandibular excursions. (05 Mar 2000) |
| flick movements | Rapid, involuntary fixation movements of the eye of 5 to 10 minutes of arc. Synonym: flick movements. (05 Mar 2000) |
| free mandibular movements | Any mandibular movement's made without tooth interference, any uninhibited movement's of the mandible. (05 Mar 2000) |
| functional mandibular movements | All natural, proper, or characteristic movement's of the mandible made during speech, mastication, yawning, swallowing, and other associated movement's. (05 Mar 2000) |
| active movement | Movement effected by the organism itself, unaided by external influences. (05 Mar 2000) |
| adversive movement | A rotation of the eyes, head, or trunk about the long axis of the body. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ameboid movement | The movement characteristic of leukocytes and protozoan organisms of the superclass Rhizopoda. See: streaming movement, filopodium, lobopodium. (05 Mar 2000) |
| amoeboid movement | <cell biology> Crawling movement of a cell brought about by the protrusion of pseudopods at the front of the cell (one or more may be seen in monopodial or polypodial amoebae, respectively). The pseudopods form distal anchorages with the surface. (05 Feb 1998) |
| assistive movement | In massage, a movement which the partially paralysed muscle of the patient would be unable to perform unaided but which is effected with the graduated assistance of the operator. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Bennett movement | The bodily lateral movement or lateral shift of the mandible during a laterotrusive movement. (05 Mar 2000) |