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rhesus

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rhe·sus  (rss)
n.
A rhesus monkey.

[Latin Rhsus, a mythical king of Thrace, from Greek Rhsos.]

Rhesus [ˈriːsəs]
n
(Myth & Legend / Classical Myth & Legend) Greek myth a king of Thrace, who arrived in the tenth year of the Trojan War to aid Troy. Odysseus and Diomedes stole his horses because an oracle had said that if these horses drank from the River Xanthus, Troy would not fall
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Noun1.rhesusrhesus - of southern Asia; used in medical research
macaque - short-tailed monkey of rocky regions of Asia and Africa
Translations
rhesus [ˈriːsəs]
A. N
1. (= monkey) → macaco m de la India
2. (Med) rhesus negativeRh negativo, Rhesus negativo
rhesus positiveRh positivo, Rhesus positivo
B. CPD rhesus baby Nbebé m con factor Rhesus
rhesus factor N (Med) → factor m Rhesus
rhesus monkey Nmacaco m de la India
rhesus
nRhesus m

rhesus:
rhesus baby
nRhesus-geschädigtes Baby
rhesus factor
nRhesusfaktor m
rhesus monkey
nRhesusaffe m
rhesus-negative
adjRhesus negativ; rhesus babyBaby ntmit Rhesus negativ
rhesus-positive
adjRhesus positiv
rhesus [ˈriːsəs] n (also rhesus monkey) → reso
rhesus [ˈriːsəs] n (also rhesus monkey) → reso


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If you want to find your way into the host of the Trojans, there are the Thracians, who have lately come here and lie apart from the others at the far end of the camp; and they have Rhesus son of Eioneus for their king.
334-345) And Tethys bare to Ocean eddying rivers, Nilus, and Alpheus, and deep-swirling Eridanus, Strymon, and Meander, and the fair stream of Ister, and Phasis, and Rhesus, and the silver eddies of Achelous, Nessus, and Rhodius, Haliacmon, and Heptaporus, Granicus, and Aesepus, and holy Simois, and Peneus, and Hermus, and Caicus fair stream, and great Sangarius, Ladon, Parthenius, Euenus, Ardescus, and divine Scamander.
 
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