| rheophore | <physics> A connecting wire of an electric or voltaic apparatus, traversed by a current. One of the poles of a voltaic battery; an electrode. Origin: Gr. To flow + to carry. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| rheoscope | <instrument, physics> An instrument for detecting the presence or movement of currents, as of electricity. Origin: Gr. To flow + -scope. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| rheostat | <physics> A contrivance for adjusting or regulating the strength of electrical currents, operating usually by the intercalation of resistance which can be varied at will. Rheostat"ic. Origin: Gr. + standing still. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| rheostosis | A hypertrophying and condensing osteitis which tends to run in longitudinal streaks or columns, like wax drippings on a candle, and which involves a number of the long bones. Synonym: flowing hyperostosis, streak hyperostosis. Origin: rheo-+ G. Osteon, bone, + -osis, condition (05 Mar 2000) |
| rheotaxis | <cell biology> Tactic response taxis to the direction of flow of a fluid. (18 Nov 1997) |
| rheotome | <physics> An instrument which periodically or otherwise interrupts an electric current. Origin: Gr. To flow + to cut. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| rheotrope | <physics> An instrument for reversing the direction of an electric current. Alternative forms: reotrope. Origin: Gr. To flow + to turn. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| rheotropism | A movement contrary to the motion of a current, involving part of an organism, rather than the organism as a whole, as in rheotaxis. Origin: rheo-+ G. Tropos, a turning (05 Mar 2000) |