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Radioimmunoassay (RIA): a procedure for assaying or quantifying minute
amounts of target substances such as hormones, neurotransmitters, or drugs in blood or
other tissue fluid. It is based on the action of the target substance to bind onto another
substance, an antibody, for which it is known to have a special affinity. A measured
amount of the target substance is labeled with a radioactive label. It is then mixed with
the unlabeled target substance that circulates in unknown quantity in a sample of blood or
other fluid, and a measured amount of the antibody is added. {The labeled and unlabeled
substances compete to bind on to the antibody.} The amount of unlabeled target substance
present can then be quantified, because it varies according to how much of its radioactive
rival becomes antibody bound, and the latter can be measured with a radioactivity counter.
This is the classical method of antigen competition.
Rape: to seize and take away by force; to plunder; to have carnal knowledge
of a woman without the legal consent of her father, husband, or herself; seizing by force;
sexual intercourse with the daughter or wife (conventionally not the son or husband) of
someone else without her or his consent [from Latin, rapere, to seize]; (in contemporary
usage) to be coercive sexually after a female partner has said no. Rape is not synonymous
with raptophilia, the paraphilic syndrome. Rape, as in the pillage and rape of a
victorious army is not the same as biastophilia or raptophilia, and is not a paraphilia.
{This definition combines two previous versions--GFP}
Rape: an act of rapism. rape or rapism: the condition in which a person is
dependent on the terrified resistance of a nonconsenting stranger, under conditions of
unexpected assault and threats of further violence, in order to obtain erotic arousal and
facilitate and achieve orgasm. The rape may be replayed in fantasy while masturbating or
copulating. True rape is not the same as the coercive imposition of coitus on an
acquaintance or spouse; synonym, raptophilia.
Rapism: see biastophilia; rape.
Raptophilia: see biastophilia [from Latin, rapere, to seize + -philia]. See
also rapism reciprocation: the mutual process of adaptation, one to the other, as when the
behavior of a person of one sex adapts itself to the behavior of the other. Synonym
complementation.
Reductionism: the theoretically incorrect practice of reducing causality
that is complex and multivariate to a single or univariate cause.
Renifleurism: sexuoerotic stimulation from the odor of urine [French, from
Latin, ren, kidney] Synonym, urophilia.
Resolution phase: the fourth of four sexual phases delineated by Masters and
Johnson; see also excitement, plateau, and orgasmic phases.
Reversible hyposomatotropic dwarfism: abuse-dwarfism; see also psychosocial
dwarfism.
RH: releasing hormone, also known as releasing factor. One of the newly
discovered peptide hormones secreted by cells in the hypothalamus of the brain. They
release other hormones, especially from the nearby pituitary gland.
Rokitansky syndrome: see Mayer-Rokitansky-Kuester syndrome.
Romantic (noun, romance): having a wondrous or storybook quality, visionary
and idealized. Romantic love belongs to the proceptive phase of a relationship, especially
at its onset. Historically, in the songs of the troubadours of the twelfth and thirteenth
centuries, romantic love stopped short of the acceptive phase of sexual intercourse and
marriage, but today there is no strict dividing line. |
