Revelation
* continuous process, confined to no one group and to no one age.
* has a system of symbolism.
* is History in symbolic language right up to the present time
  - apocalyptic literature written is graphic symbols and visions
  - important in the major religious traditions
  - insight
  - new ideas
  - part of new testaments
  - written in symbolic language
* particular mode of awareness and perception that occurs in certain rare individuals.
* relational event.
* seems to be the common denominator of reported mystical experiences.
* speech act
* study of the future.

Rutherfordium
* has no biological role.
* highly radioactive chemical element.
* is produced artificially and only small amounts have been made
  - the first transactinide element
* synthetic radioactive metal created by nuclear bombardment.

Resuscitation
* can deliver a person from the brink of death.
* causes life.
* implies a commitment on the side of life.
* is merely the reanimation of a corpse
  - revival
  - the prompt treatment of lifethreatening problems
* restarts the heart when it has stopped beating.

Renal osteodystrophy
* consequence of chronic renal failure related to the calcium metabolism.
* is the most complex, multifactorial metabolic bone disease.
* occurs in people with chronic renal failure.

Rbi
* are highly revered in baseball.
* come in bunches.

Rheumatism
* being a blood disease, requires constitutional treatment.
* causes stiffness of muscles and pain in joints.
  - causing pain in the joints, muscles or fibrous tissue
* is arthritis
  - attended with loss of motion and often more or less deformity
  - neuritis of the joint nerves
  - one of the chronic ailments and is closely followed by consumption
  - the painful inflammation and swelling that afflicts joints and muscles

Recurrent stroke
* Having more than one stroke can mean patients have more problems recovering.
* causes progressively greater impairment and increased likelihood of mortality.

Realism
* can often be another term for opportunism.
* consists in starting from the world as it is and modeling action according to that reality.
* corresponds to the traditional view of science that links reality directly to observation.
* is about recreating life in literature.
* is also important when formulating a vision
  - in the nature of the beast
  - an important concept in fine art , drama and literature
  - art seen as is
  - increasingly important in categories such as dolls, model trains and action figures
  - most manifest in the form of sculpture
  - pessimism, and it causes great, unnecessary suffering in businesses
  - practicality
* is the dramatic mode at which American playwrights have thus far excelled
  - kind of fiction that confines itself to the type of normal life
  - only literary mode capable of representing the totality of society
  - removal of possibility in light of accepted practice
  - second oldest school of philosophy
  - standard of modern art
  - view that the world exists apart from our perception of it
  - what people are used to now
* is, in a sense, the natural or pre-philosophical point of view.
* representation of what the world seems to be in the eyes of the artist at that time.
* subjective metric.
* tends towards collectivism, nominalism to individualism.

Ruman
* Rumen ciliate protozoology.
* Rumen inert fat sources include calcium salts of fatty acids and hydrogenated fats
  - fats for lactating dairy cows

Rhinocero
* are large plant eating mammals which are able to reach more than a tonne in weight.
* have thick, protective skin
  - sensitive skin
* use their horns to shovel the ground, fight for territory and for defensive purposes.

Ritualistic abuse
* involves the use of rituals and is perpetrated in the name of an ideology.
* is perpetrated under the guise of a multitude of belief systems.