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- English Word Rheumy Definition Of or pertaining to rheum; abounding in, or causing, rheum; affected with rheum.
- English Word Rhigolene Definition A mixture of volatile hydrocarbons intermediate between gsolene and cymogene. It is obtained in the purification of crude petroleum, and is used as a refregerant.
- English Word Rhime Definition See Rhyme.
- English Word Rhinal Definition Og or pertaining to the nose or olfactory organs.
- English Word Rhinaster Definition The borele.
- English Word Rhine Definition A water course; a ditch.
- English Word Rhinencephala Definition of Rhinencephalon
- English Word Rhinencephalic Definition Of or pertaining to the rhinencephalon.
- English Word Rhinencephalon Definition The division of the brain in front of the prosencephalon, consisting of the two olfactory lobes from which the olfactory nerves arise.
- English Word Rhinestone Definition A colorless stone of high luster, made of paste. It is much used as an inexpensive ornament.
- English Word Rhinitis Definition Infllammation of the nose; esp., inflammation of the mucous membrane of the nostrils.
- English Word Rhino Definition Gold and silver, or money.
- English Word Rhino- Definition A combining form from Greek //, ///, the nose, as in rhinolith, rhinology.
- English Word Rhinocerial Definition Alt. of Rhinocerical
- English Word Rhinocerical Definition Of or pertaining to the rhinoceros; resembling the rhinoceros, or his horn.
- English Word Rhinoceros Definition Any pachyderm belonging to the genera Rhinoceros, Atelodus, and several allied genera of the family Rhinocerotidae, of which several living, and many extinct, species are known. They are large and powerful, and usually have either one or two stout conical median horns on the snout.
- English Word Rhinocerote Definition A rhinoceros.
- English Word Rhinocerotic Definition Of or pertaining to the rhinoceros.
- English Word Rhinolite Definition Alt. of Rhinolith
- English Word Rhinolith Definition A concretion formed within the cavities of the nose.
- English Word Rhinological Definition Of or pertaining to rhinology.
- English Word Rhinologist Definition One skilled in rhinology.
- English Word Rhinology Definition The science which treats of the nose, and its diseases.
- English Word Rhinolophid Definition Any species of the genus Rhinilophus, or family Rhinolophidae, having a horseshoe-shaped nasal crest; a horseshoe bat.
- English Word Rhinolophine Definition Like or pertaining to the rhinolophids, or horseshoe bats.
- English Word Rhinophore Definition One of the two tentacle-like organs on the back of the head or neck of a nudibranch or tectibranch mollusk. They are usually retractile, and often transversely furrowed or plicate, and are regarded as olfactory organs. Called also dorsal tentacles. See Illust. under Pygobranchia, and Opisthobranchia.
- English Word Rhinoplastic Definition Of or pertaining to rhinoplasty; as, a rhinoplastic operation.
- English Word Rhinoplasty Definition Plastic surgery of the nose to correct deformity or to replace lost tissue. Tissue may be transplanted from the patient's cheek, forehead, arm, etc., or even from another person.
- English Word Rhinopome Definition Any old-world bat of the genus Rhinopoma. The rhinopomes have a long tail extending beyond the web, and inhabit caves and tombs.
- English Word Rhinoscleroma Definition A rare disease of the skin, characterized by the development of very hard, more or less flattened, prominences, appearing first upon the nose and subsequently upon the neighboring parts, esp. the lips, palate, and throat.