RETROCOCHLEAR HEARING LOSS
Hearing disorder connected to the higher centers of the central nervous system, as well as to the neural networks of…
RETROGRADE DEGENERATION
Decay in the body of a neuron after injury is sustained to its axon. Compare with: anterograde degeneration.
RETROGRADE EJACULATION
Semen directed into the bladder, opposite the direction it is intended. Semen is excreted from the bladder at a later…
RETROLENTAL FIBROPLASIA
Occurring primarily in premature infants, disorder involving the tissues located behind the eye's lens, distinguished by the existence of a…
RETRONASAL OLFACTION
The phenomenon of sensing smells, coming into being in the nasopharynx, caused by some odor causing agent in the mouth.…
RETROSPECTIVE AUDIT
Practice in health administration which allows determination of medical necessity and suitable billing procedures for previously rendered services.
RETROSPECTIVE SAMPLING
Technique which selects samples based on their prior introduction to a risk factor or having experienced a specific incident or…
RETT SYNDROME
Especially presenting in female children, a degenerative disorder which becomes apparent between six and eighteen months of age wherein the…
REVERBERATORY CIRCUIT
Neural circuits which as essentially always active, allowing impulses to repeatedly circulate after having been triggered by an initial stimulus…
REVERSAL LEARNING
Discriminating between two opposing options, wherein the rewarded responses have been reversed after having been correlated with two different stimuli.
REVERSAL THEORY
A method of explaining the emotion, personality, and motivation inherent in the relationship which exists between performance and arousal.
REVERSE ANOREXIA
An inversion of anorexia in which a subject is obsessed with increasing body size, especially by the addition of muscle…
REVERSIBLE FIGURE-GROUND
Perceptual changes of which specific elements make up the figure, and which make up the background in indeterminate figures like…
REVERSING LENSES AND PRISMS
Prisms and lenses employed in preliminary exploration of visuomotor adaptations.
REVOLVING-DOOR PHENOMENON
Patient being readmitted to institutions or facilities, usually due to discharge prior to adequate recovery.