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rima

 [ri´mah] (L.)
a cleft or crack.
rima glot´tidis the elongated opening between the true vocal cords and between the arytenoid cartilages; called also vocal area.
rima o´ris the opening of the mouth.
rima palpebra´rum palpebral fissure.
rima puden´di the space between the labia majora; called also pudendal fissure.
Miller-Keane Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health, Seventh Edition. © 2003 by Saunders, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc. All rights reserved.

RIMA

Abbreviation for reversible inhibitor of monoamine oxidase.

ri·ma

, gen. and pl.

ri·mae

(rī'mă, rī'mē), [TA]
A slit or fissure, or narrow elongated opening between two symmetric parts.
[L. a slit]
Farlex Partner Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012

RIMA

1. Reversible inhibitor of monoamine oxidase.
2. RMA Right internal mammary artery, see there.
McGraw-Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

ri·ma

, pl. rimae (rī'mă, -mē) [TA]
A slit or fissure, or narrow elongated opening between two symmetric parts.
[L. a slit]
Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions and Nursing © Farlex 2012

ri·ma

, pl. rimae (rī'mă, -mē) [TA]
Slit or fissure, or narrow elongated opening between two symmetric parts.
[L. a slit]
Medical Dictionary for the Dental Professions © Farlex 2012
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Toor relates the Rime to the alchemical process, and says:
Bur other critics rose in defense of Stampa, creating an ongoing polemic, though modern critics and readers are more interested in the literary value of the Rime than in the details of the poet's life, as is well illustrated in the "Introduction," based on the more recent studies on Gaspara, which stress her poetic talent, not her life.
Like rime, metrical variations make it possible to hear the invisible citations, though without absolute precision.
These quiet heroes live in obscurity yet their actions make an enduring, at rimes lifesaving, impact on others.
Fish the rime (the first vowel and the rest of the word)
During this rime most of the old skateparks were closed or closing, and the runt of the Midwest reappeared as the gem of the old school, attracting skaters from all over the world!
A phonemic method was used in the reading of words as onset-rimes because segmenting the onset from the time involved a focus on the onset (phoneme) and the rime unit.
Higher education, usually more immune than other sectors, is no exception this rime.
Poetic rhyme is one source of evidence for a level of structure within the syllable called the onset and the rime (Fudge, 1987; MacKay, 1972).
In the process, however, he did establish the standard terminology, distinguishing between a syllable's assonance (word- or syllable-initial consonant cluster), and its rime (concatenated vocalic nucleus and final consonant cluster); thus in the word stump, for instance, the assonance is st- and the rime is -ump.
Well, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner may be about Mary's father, Fletcher Christian, or so Mary thinks.