| PIR | postinhibition rebound; protein identification resource |
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| QRM | quality and resource management |
| RAM | random-access memory; rapid alternating movements; rectus abdominis muscle; rectus abdominis myocuta... |
| RBRVS | resource-based relative value scale |
| RCRA | Resource Conservation and Recovery Act |
| education, pharmacy | Formal instruction, learning, or training in the preparation, dispensing, and proper utilization of drugs in the field of medicine. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| education, pharmacy, continuing | Educational programs designed to inform graduate pharmacists of recent advances in their particular field. (12 Dec 1998) |
| education, pharmacy, graduate | Educational programs for pharmacists who have a bachelor's degree or a doctor of pharmacy degree entering a specific field of pharmacy. They may lead to an advanced degree. (12 Dec 1998) |
| education, predental | Preparatory education meeting the requirements for admission to dental school. (12 Dec 1998) |
| education, premedical | Preparatory education meeting the requirements for admission to medical school. (12 Dec 1998) |
| education, professional | Formal education and training in preparation for the practice of a profession. (12 Dec 1998) |
| education, professional, retraining | Educational programs for individuals who have been inactive in their profession, or who wish to regain unused skills. (12 Dec 1998) |
| education, special | Education of the individual who markedly deviates intellectually, physically, socially, or emotionally from those considered to be normal, thus requiring special instruction. (12 Dec 1998) |
| education, veterinary | Use for general articles concerning veterinary medical education. (12 Dec 1998) |
| active centre | The part of a macromolecule at which a substrate or ligand, upon binding, produces biological activity; for an enzyme, this is the catalytic centre, the site on an enzyme that catalyses the reaction. (05 Mar 2000) |
| anospinal centre | The centre in the spinal cord that controls the contraction of the anal sphincter. (05 Mar 2000) |
| asymmetric centre | <chemistry> Same as a chiral centre, a tetrahedral carbon atom that bears four different substituents. (09 Jan 1998) |
| Broca's centre | The posterior part of the inferior frontal gyrus of the left or dominant hemisphere, corresponding approximately to Brodmann's area 44; Broca identified this region as an essential component of the motor mechanisms governing articulated speech. Synonym: Broca's area, Broca's field, motor speech centre. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Budge's centre | The preganglionic motor neurons in the first thoracic segment of the spinal cord which give rise to the sympathetic innervation of the dilator muscle of the eye's pupil. Synonym: Budge's centre. (05 Mar 2000) |
| vasomotor centre | Diffuse area of the reticular formation in the lateral medulla containing neurons that control vascular tone; consists of separate vasodepressor and vasopressor areas. (05 Mar 2000) |