Medicine
- Relative risk, a term used in statistics and epidemiology
- Respiratory rate, a vital sign
- A rhesus factor phenotype
- RR interval (R wave to R wave interval), the inverse of heart rate
- RR, abbreviation for blood pressure measurements taken with a sphygmomanometer invented by Scipione Riva-Rocci (1863–1937)
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Famous quotes containing the word medicine:
“We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering.”
—Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (b. 1926)
“I hold it that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.... It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“He said that private practice in medicine ought to be put down by law. When I asked him why, he said that private doctors were ignorant licensed murders.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)