| rototome | A rotating cutting instrument used in arthroscopic surgery. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| rotoxamine | (-)-2-[p-Chloro-alpha-(2-dimethylaminoethoxy)benzyl]pyridine;active isomer of carbinoxamine; an antihistaminic. (05 Mar 2000) |
| rotten | Having rotted; putrid; decayed; as, a rotten apple; rotten meat. Hence: Offensive to the smell; fetid; disgusting. "You common cry or curs! whose breath I hate As reek of the rotten fens." (Shak) Not firm or trusty; unsound; defective; treacherous; unsafe; as, a rotten plank, bone, stone. "The deepness of the rotten way." Rotten borough. See Borough. <chemical> Rotten stone, a soft stone, called also Tripoli (from the country from which it was formerly brought), used in all sorts of finer grinding and polishing in the arts, and for cleaning metallic substances. The name is also given to other friable siliceous stones applied to like uses. Synonym: Putrefied, decayed, carious, defective, unsound, corrupt, deceitful, treacherous. Rot"tenly, Rot"tenness. Origin: Icel. Rotinn; akin to Sw. Rutten, Dan. Radden. See Rot. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| rotula | <anatomy> The patella, or kneepan. Origin: L, a little wheel; cf. It. Rotula. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| rotular | <anatomy> Of or pertaining to the rotula, or kneepan. Origin: L. Rotula, dim. Of rota wheel. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| rotund | 1. Round; circular; spherical. 2. Hence; complete; entire. 3. <botany> Orbicular, or nearly so. Origin: L. Rotundus. See Round, and cf. Rotunda. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| rotundifolious | <botany> Having round leaves. Origin: L. Rotundus round + folium a leaf. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |