| Rhizopoda |
creeping protozoans: amoebas and foraminifers
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| rhizotomy |
surgical procedure in which spinal nerve roots are cut; done (anterior roots) to relieve intractable pain or (posterior roots) to stop severe muscle spasms
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| rhodopsin |
visual purple: a red photopigment in the retinal rods of vertebrates; dissociates into retinene by light
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| rhombencephalon |
hindbrain: the posterior portion of the brain including cerebellum and brainstem
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| rhomboid |
a parallelogram with adjacent sides of unequal lengths; an oblique-angled parallelogram with only the opposite sides equal any of several muscles of the upper back that help move the shoulder blade shaped like a rhombus or rhomboid; "rhomboidal shapes"
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