| retrocaecal recess | One of several small pockets sometimes found extending alongside the right margin of the ascending colon near the caecum. Synonym: recessus retrocaecalis, caecal recess. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| retrocalcaneobursitis | Synonym: achillobursitis. Origin: retro-+ L. Calcaneum heel, + bursitis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| retrocaval ureter | <radiology> Ureter courses behind and medial to IVC, with or without ureteral obstruction subcardinal vein, IVC usually formed from supracardinal veins (12 Dec 1998) |
| retrocedent | Disposed or likely to retrocede; said of diseases which go from one part of the body to another, as the gout. Origin: L. Retrocedens, p. Pr. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| retrocedent gout | An obsolete term for the occurrence of severe gastric, cardiac, or cerebral symptoms during an attack of gout, especially when the joint and other symptoms suddenly subside at the same time. Saturnine gout, gout occurring in a person with lead poisoning. Synonym: lead gout. Secondary gout, gout resulting from increased serum uric acid levels as a result of an antecedent disease, such as a proliferative disease of the blood and bone marrow, lead poisoning, or prolonged chronic renal failure (on dialysis). Tophaceous gout, gout in which deposits of uric acid and urates occur as gouty tophi. (05 Mar 2000) |
| retrocervical | Posterior to the cervix uteri. (05 Mar 2000) |
| retrocession | 1. The act of retroceding. 2. The state of being retroceded, or granted back. 3. <medicine> Metastasis of an eruption or a tumour from the surface to the interior of the body. Origin: Cf. F. Retrocession. See Retrocede. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| retrochoir | Any extension of a church behind the higggggggh altar, as a chapel; also, in an apsidal church, all the space beyond the line of the back or eastern face of the altar. Origin: Pref. Retro- + choir. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| retroclusion | A form of acupressure for the arrest of bleeding; the needle is passed through the tissues above the cut end of the artery, is turned around, and then is passed backward beneath the vessel to come out near the point of entrance. Origin: retro-+ L. Claudo (cludo) to close (05 Mar 2000) |
| retrocochlear deafness | Former term for sensorineural deafness; suggesting a lesion proximal to the cochlea. (05 Mar 2000) |
| retrocochlear diseases | Diseases of the acoustic nerve. Retrocochlear refers to the eighth cranial nerve and cerebellopontine angle as opposed to the cochlea. (12 Dec 1998) |
| retrocolic | Posterior to the colon. Origin: retro-+ G. Kolon, colon (05 Mar 2000) |
| retrocollic | Relating to the back of the neck; drawing back the head. Origin: retro-+ L. Collum, neck (05 Mar 2000) |
| retrocollic spasm | Torticollis in which the spasm affects the posterior neck muscles. Synonym: retrocollis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| retrocollis | Torticollis in which the spasm affects the posterior neck muscles. Synonym: retrocollis. (05 Mar 2000) |