| rapidly adapting r. |
a mechanoreceptor that responds quickly to stimulation but that rapidly accommodates and stops firing if the stimulus remains constant. Examples are Meissner's corpuscles, pacinian corpuscles, and Golgi-Mazzoni corpuscles.
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| rapidly progressive g. |
acute glomerulonephritis marked by a rapid progression to end-stage renal disease and, histologically, by profuse epithelial proliferation, often with epithelial crescents; principal signs are anuria, proteinuria, hematuria, and anemia. Called also crescentic g.
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| rapidly progressive p. |
generalized periodontitis occurring after puberty and before the age of 30 to 35 in those who may or may not have had juvenile periodontitis, characterized by severe and rapid bone destruction, which may progress to abscess formation and tooth loss, or may enter a short or prolonged dormant period.
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| Rapp-Hodgkin s. |
anhidrotic ectodermal dysplasia.
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| Rappaport c. |
a classification of non-Hodgkin's lymphomas based on histologic criteria; the categories it developed were nodular lymphomas and diffuse lymphomas. It was replaced by the Lukes-Collins Classification and the Kiel Classification.
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