Vocabulary (R's) Flashcards
The supervisor, in an institution licensed to use radionuclides, that has the responsibility to establish procedures and make recommendations in the use of all radioactive matter.
Radiation Protection Officer
A chemical element that is similar in chemical properties to another element, but differs in atomic weight and electric charge and emits radiation.
Radioactive Isotope
A chemical element that is similar in chemical properties to another element but differs in atomic weight and electric charge and emits an atom that disintegrates by emission of electromagnetic radiation.
Radionuclide
Speed at which solution is injected; measured in ounces per minute.
Rate of Flow
A mark of desiccation.
Razor Burn aka Razor Abrasion
Repeated aspiration of a cavity.
Reaspiration
Substance that easily loses electrons and there-by causes other substances to be reduced, formaldehyde is a strong reducing agent.
Reducing Agent
To lay at rest.
Repose
An amorphouse, nonvolatile solid or soft side substance, a natural exudate from plants any of a class of solid or soft organic compounds of natural or synthetic origin.
Resinous Substance
Treatment of the deceased in the attempt to recreate natural form and color.
Restoration
Supplemental fluid, used with the regular arterial solution whose purpose is to retain body moisture and retard dehydration.
Restorative Fluid aka Humectant
Method of injection wherein both common cariod artieries are raised.
Restricted Cervical Injection
Inner lining of the eye that receives the images formed by the lens and transmits those images to the brain through the optic nerve.
Retina
A general purpose embalming instrument which is primarily used to spread incisions and to afford more working room. It can be used as an aid in eyecap insertion.
Retractor
The right side of the heart seem as the center of drainage; used as a site of drainage via instruments form the right internal jugular vein.
Right Atrium
