| rhinopharyngitis |
inflammation of the nasopharynx
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| rhizotomy |
Division of the roots of the spinal nerves.
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| rhinoplasty |
the surgical repair of a defect of the nose, including reshaping or resizing the nose. Rhinoplasty may be performed to change the size of the nose, change the shape of the nose, narrow the nostrils, and/or change the angle between the nose and lips. Rhinoplasty involves the resculpting of the bone and cartilage.
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| rhinoscope |
A thin lighted tube used to examine the nose. Also called a nasoscope
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| rhinencephalon |
(Gr. rhis, nose; enkephalos, brain): Parts of the brain concerned with olfactory function (reception and integration). In the narrow sense it refers to those parts directly involved with reception of olfactory stimuli only (olfactor y bulbs, tract, striae, anterior olfactory nucleus, part of the amygdala and the pyriform cortex).
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