rhe·sus

(rē′səs)

A rhesus monkey.

[Latin Rhēsus, a mythical king of Thrace, from Greek Rhēsos.]

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Rhesus

(ˈriːsəs)

(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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Noun

rhesus - of southern Asia; used in medical research

Macaca mulatta, rhesus monkey

macaque - short-tailed monkey of rocky regions of Asia and Africa

Translations

rhésus

reso

rhesus

[ˈriːsəs]

A. N

1. (= monkey) → macaco m de la India

2. (Med) rhesus negative → Rh negativo, Rhesus negativo
rhesus positive → Rh positivo, Rhesus positivo

B. CPD rhesus baby N → bebé m con factor Rhesus
rhesus factor N (Med) → factor m Rhesus
rhesus monkey N → macaco m de la India

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rhesus

n → Rhesus m

rhesus

rhesus baby

n → Rhesus-geschädigtes Baby

rhesus factor

n → Rhesusfaktor m

rhesus monkey

n → Rhesusaffe m

rhesus-negative

adj → Rhesus negativ; rhesus baby → Baby nt → mit Rhesus negativ

rhesus-positive

adj → Rhesus positiv

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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.

Rhesus was sleeping in the middle, and hard by him his horses were made fast to the topmost rim of his chariot.

He was angry with her, and coming to the host of the Trojans he roused Hippocoon, a counsellor of the Thracians and a noble kinsman of Rhesus. He started up out of his sleep and saw that the horses were no longer in their place, and that the men were gasping in their death-agony; on this he groaned aloud, and called upon his friend by name.

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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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A Rhesus meter B Rhesus level C Rhesus density D Rhesus factor 14.

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