Retrocedent. Moving from one part of the body to another; as gout.
Retrocession. Change of an eruption from the surface to the inner parts.
Retroversion. A change in the position of the womb in which the top falls back against the rectum.
Revulsion, Revulsive. Calling the blood away from the diseased part.
Rickets. A disease in children characterized by crookedness of the spine and long bones resulting from scrofula or poor and insufficient food.
Rickety. Affected with rickets.
Rings (Hernial). Circular openings with muscular edges through which a vessel or part passes.
Rubefacients. Medicines which produce redness of the skin.
Rupture. Bursting. Hernia.
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