ribulosebisphosphate carboxylase-oxygenase activase |
<chemical> Requires ATP; amino acid sequence given in first source Synonym: rubisco activase, rca protein (26 Jun 1999) |
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ribulosephosphate |
<biochemistry> Ribulose substituted by one or more phosphoric acid moieties. (12 Dec 1998) |
ribulosephosphate 3-epimerase |
<enzyme> An enzyme catalyzing the reversible interconversion of d-xylulose 5-phosphate and its epimer, d-ribulose 5-phosphate; a step in the nonoxidative phase of the pentose phosphate pathway. Registry number: EC 5.1.3.1 Synonym: d-erythrose 4-phosphate isomerase, pentose-5-phosphate 3-epimerase, phosphoribulose epimerase. (05 Mar 2000) |
ribwort |
<botany> A species of plantain (Plantago lanceolata) with long, narrow, ribbed leaves. Synonym: rib grass, ripple grass, ribwort plantain. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
Ricco |
Annibale, Italian astrophysicist. Lived: 1844-1919. See: Ricco's law. (05 Mar 2000) |
Ricco's law |
<physics> For small images, light intensity X area = constant for the threshold. (05 Mar 2000) |
rice |
<botany> A well-known cereal grass (Oryza sativa) and its seed. This plant is extensively cultivated in warm climates, and the grain forms a large portion of the food of the inhabitants. In America it grows chiefly on low, moist land, which can be overflowed. Ant rice. <botany> A small beetle (Calandra, or Sitophilus, oryzae) which destroys rice, wheat, and Indian corn by eating out the interior. Synonym: black weevil. Origin: F. Riz (cf. Pr. Ris, It. Riso), L. Oryza, Gr, probably from the Persian; cf. OPers. Brizi, akin to Skr. Vrihi; or perh. Akin to E. Rye. Cf. Rye. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
rice body |
One of the small, loose body's found in hygromas, tendon sheaths, and joints. (05 Mar 2000) |
rice diet |
A diet of rice, fruit, and sugar, plus vitamin and iron supplements, devised by Kempner to treat hypertension. In 2,000 calories, the diet contains 5 gm or less of fat, about 20 gm of protein, and not more than 150 mg of sodium. Synonym: Kempner diet. (05 Mar 2000) |
rice disease |
Beriberi, the original outbreaks of which were caused by feeding people rice from which the husks had been removed (polished rice), decreasing the vitamin B1 content of the rice. (05 Mar 2000) |
rice itch |
Schistosomiasis caused by schistosoma japonicum. It is endemic in the far east and affects the bowel, liver, and spleen. (12 Dec 1998) |
rice-field fever |
A febrile illness affecting workers in rice fields, reported in Po valley in Italy and in Sumatra, caused by infection with a species of Leptospira. (05 Mar 2000) |
rice-shell |
<zoology> Any one of numerous species of small white polished marine shells of the genus Olivella. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
rice-Tween agar |
A useful medium for the development of the differential chlamydospores in Candida albicans and for preparation of slide cultures for other forms of sporulation in other fungal species. (05 Mar 2000) |
rice-water stool |
A watery fluid containing whitish flocculi, discharged from the bowel in cholera and occasionally in other cases of serous diarrhoea. (05 Mar 2000) |