See Also: rabbit fibroma(medicine)
rabbit fibroma virus(medicine)
fibroma virus, rabbit(medicine)
Ricci, Matteo(encyclopedia)
Ricci tensor(dictionary)
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rabbit-o(dictionary)
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Ricci tensor (iou) and rabbit fibroma (medicine)


Ricci tensor (iou)



Ricci tensor noun phr. E20.
[C. G. Ricci (1853-1925), Italian mathematician.]
Math. A symmetric second-order tensor which describes the curvature of space-time, obtained by contracting the Riemann-Christoffel tensor.

rabbit fibroma (medicine)


rabbit fibroma -->
Shope fibroma


A connective tissue tumour of cottontail rabbits caused by a poxvirus of the genus Leporipoxvirus and found by Shope to be transmissible with cellular suspensions or Berkefeld filtrates; it is related to myxomatosis and is used in Europe as a source of vaccine to protect against the myxoma virus.

Synonym: rabbit fibroma.