RIDGE'S FOOD 



corresponding to the eyebrow. Rs., Supracondyloid. 

 See Rs., Condylar. R. , Temporal, the ridge extend- 

 ing from the external angular process of the frontal 

 bone upward and backward across the frontal and 

 parietal bones, curving downward, and terminating 

 in the posterior root of the zygomatic process. R., 

 Wolffian, germ-epithelium. See R., Genital. 

 Edge's Food. A farinaceous food for infants. Its 

 composition is: Water, 9.23; fat, 0.63 ; grape-sugar, 

 2.40; cane-sugar, 2.20; starch, 77.96; soluble carbo- 

 hydrates, 5.19; albuminoids, 9.24; ash, 0.60. 

 tidgel rif-el) [origin uncertain]. A male animal 



having one testicle removed or wanting, 

 tidgeling (rifling). See Ridgel. 

 tidgil nf-il). See Ridgel. 



tiding of Bones. In surgery, the displacement of 

 the fractured ends of bones which are forced past 

 each other by muscular contraction, instead of remain- 

 ed to end. 

 tidlng-hag. Incubus; nightmare, 

 tiegel's Syndrome. Respiratory disturbance simulat- 

 ing asthma, combined with tachycardia. R.'s Test- 

 meal, a test-meal consisting of 400 grams broth, 50 

 grams scraped beef, 60 grams white bread, 

 tiga's Disease. See Aphtha, Cachectic, and Diseases, 



of. 



liggs' Disease. See Diseases, Table of. 



tight (rlt) [ME., right, right]. Belonging to or 



located upon that side which, with mammals contains 



less of the heart and is on the east when the face is 



toward the north ; dextral. R. -brained, having the 



speech-center in the right instead of the left hemisphere. 



R.Hand. See Dexter. R. -handed, using the right 



! hand with more freedom and effect than the left. R.- 



handedness, the condition of being right-handed. 

 ttgiditas (rij-id f -it-as) [L.] Stiffness ; rigidity. R. 



articulorum, spurious ankylosis, 

 ligidity rij-id' -it-e) [rigidus, stiff]. Stiffness ; inflexi- 

 bility; immobility; tonic contraction of muscles. R., 

 Anatomic (of the cervix uteri), rigidity in which the 

 cervix, though neither edematous nor tender, is not 

 : wholly effaced in labor, but retains its length and dilates 

 only to a certain extent, beyond which the contrac- 

 tions of the uterus are without effect. R., Cadav- 

 eric, rigor mortis. R., Cerebellar, rigidity of the 

 spinal muscles, due to tumor of the middle lobe of 

 | the cerebellum. The head is drawn backward, the 

 ; spine curved, and the arms and legs made rigid (H. 

 Jackson). R., Hemiplegic, spastic rigidity of the 

 paralyzed limbs in hemiplegia. R., Muscular. See 

 Thomsen's Disease. R., Pathologic (of the cervix 

 uteri), rigidity due to organic disease or cicatricial 

 contraction. R., Post-mortem, rigor mortis. R., 

 Spasmodic (of the cervix uteri ), rigidity due to spas- 

 modic contraction of the cervix. 



'.:gor ri f -gor) [rigor, cold]. Coldness, stiffness, or 

 [idity. In the plural, chills, shivering. R. cadav- 

 See R. mortis. R. maxillae inferioris, 

 R. mortis : 1. The muscular rigidity that 

 occurs a short time after death, due to chemic changes 

 resulting in the production of myosin. 2. The rigor 

 due to changes occurring in a muscle that has lost its 

 irritability, in which its acidity is increased and its 

 ectric currents are absent. R. nervorum, R. 

 nervosus. See Tetanus. 



'mah) [rima, crack, cleft : //., Rima] In bi- 

 ology: 1. A chink, cleft, or fissure. 2. The chief part 

 of the great transverse fissure of the brain. It is a line 

 of interruption of the nervous parietes of the paracele, 

 beginning at the dorsal end of the porta, and extending 

 to near the tip of the medicorun. R. ad infundibulum, 

 the anterior aperture of the third ventricle of the brain. 



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R., Anterior, the calamus scriptorius (Monro). Rimae 

 caecae hepatis, the hepatic fissures lodging the 

 branches of the portal vein. R. cerebri transversa, 

 the transverse fissure of the cerebrum. R. clunium , 

 the cleft of the nates. Rimae cutis, the normal fur- 

 rows of the skin. R. glottidis, the cleft between the 

 true vocal bands ; the glottis. R. glutaea. See R. 

 clunium. R. helicis, an anomalous cleft in the in- 

 ferior anterior portion of the helix. R. labiorum. 

 See R. oris. R. laryngis. See R. glottidis. R. 

 oris, the line formed by the junction of the lips. R. 

 palpebrarum, the palpebral fissure. R. pudendi, 

 the fissure between the labia majora. R. pudendi 

 connivens, the fissure between the labia majora when 

 they completely conceal the nymphae. R. transversa 

 cerebelli, the sulcus between the peduncles of the 

 cerebellum. R. ventriculi laryngis, the aperture 

 of the ventricle of the larynx. R. vocalis. See R. 

 glottidis. R. vulvae. See R. pudendi. 



Rimiform (ri'-mif-orm) \rima, a chink ; forma, form]. 

 In biology, possessing a longitudinal chink or furrow. 



Rimose (ri'-moz) [rimosus, full of chinks]. In biol- 

 ogy, full of crevices or furrows. 



Rimous (ri'-mus) [rima, a cleft]. Having cracks, 

 clefts, or fissures. 



Rimula (rim'-u-lah) [L., dim. of rima, a crack: pi. , 

 Rimula] . A fissure ; applied especially to the ventral 

 mesal fissure of the spinal cord ; an interfoliar cleft of 

 the cerebellum. 



Rimule (rim' ~ul)[rimula, dim. of rima, a cleft]. Any 

 minute cleft, crack, or fissure. 



Rinar (rif-nar). Limatura ; filings. 



Rind (rind) [ME. , rind, crust]. In biology, an outer 

 coat, skin, or integument Cortex. 



Rinderpest (rin' '-der-pest) [Ger. , "cattle-pest"]. An 

 acute infectious disease of cattle, appearing occasion- 

 ally among sheep, and communicable to other rumi- 

 nants. It is called also cattle-plague. Cf. Bacillus 

 septicaemia hamorrhagica, under Bacteria, Synonym- 

 atic Table of. 



Rindfleisch's Granule-cells. Eosinophile leukocytes 

 with granulations. 



Ring [ME., ring, ring]. A circular opening or aper- 

 ture ; the structure surrounding a circular opening. 

 See Annulus. Rs., Abbe's, rings of catgut used in 

 the establishment of an artificial communication be- 

 tween one part of the bowel and another, or between 

 the bowel and the stomach. R., Abdominal, the 

 internal or external abdominal ring. R., Annual, one 

 of the successive circles of wood produced yearly in 

 exogenous trunks. R., Antimonial, a ring pro- 

 duced when volatilized antimony impinges on a glass 

 surface. Rs., Apposition. See Rs., Abie's. R., 

 Arsenical, a ring produced when fumes of arsenic 

 impinge on a glass surface. R., Bandl's, an annular 

 muscular thickening of the uterus during labor between 

 the contractile portion of the organ and the relaxed 

 attenuated portion below ; the true os uteri internum 

 of Bandl. R.-bone, a bony callus or exostosis, the 

 result of inflammation on one or both pastern-bones 

 of a horse. It may extend to the interphalangeal 

 joints and cause immobility and lameness. R. -canal : 

 (a) the circumesophageal canal of the water-vascular 

 system of Echinoderms ; (b) the annular enterocele 

 of Ccelenterates . R., Contraction. See R., Bandr s. 

 R., Crural. See R., Femoral. R., Femoral, the ab- 

 dominal opening of the femoral canal. Rs., Fibrous 

 (of the Heart) , the fibrous bands surrounding the arterial 

 and auriculo-ventricular orifices of the heart, and to 

 which the muscular fibers are attached. R.- finger, 

 the fourth digit or third finger. R. -infiltration (of the 

 Cornea), an infiltration of cells, circular in shape, in th» 





