Akademik

1. A mass or structure in the shape of a r.. 2. The process by which a round entity is moved by a pressure gradient, as a leukocyte moves along a blood vessel wall.

- iliac r. a sausage-shaped, often painful, nonfluctuating mass, with convexity to the right, palpable in the left iliac fossa, due to induration of the walls of the sigmoid flexure.

- scleral r. SYN: scleral spur.

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