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Roux
Roux is a cooked paste of equal parts flour and fat used to thicken sauces, soups, and stews; white, blond, brown, and Cajun-dark versions underpin béchamel, velouté, espagnole, and gumbo.
Roux-en-Y anastomosis
Roux-en-Y anastomosis: transected jejunal limb joined to stomach, esophagus, or bile duct with a Y-shaped jejunojejunostomy; one-way reflux-preventing loop used in gastric bypass, hepaticojejunostomy, and post-gastrectomy reconstruction.
Roux-en-Y gastric bypass
Roux-en-Y gastric bypass is a bariatric operation that divides the stomach into a small pouch and reroutes the jejunum, treating obesity and type 2 diabetes.
Roux-en-Y hepaticojejunostomy
Roux-en-Y hepaticojejunostomy is a surgical reconstruction that drains bile by joining the hepatic duct to a defunctionalized Roux limb of jejunum, used to repair bile duct injury.
Rouz Jazayeri
Rouz Jazayeri is a venture capital investor and co-founder of Catapult Ventures, a seed-stage deep technology fund, after a decade at Intel and time at Kleiner Perkins.
ROV Kiel 6000
ROV Kiel 6000 is a deep-diving, electrically powered work class remotely operated vehicle run by GEOMAR in Kiel, Germany, rated to 6000 m, built by Schilling Robotics in 2008.
Rovadicitinib
Rovadicitinib (TQ05105, Anxu, 罗伐昔替尼) is a first-in-class oral JAK/ROCK dual inhibitor by Chia Tai Tianqing, first approved in China on 25 February 2026 as first-line therapy for intermediate-2 or high-risk myelofibrosis, and licensed globally to Sanofi.
Rovalpituzumab tesirine
Rovalpituzumab tesirine (Rova-T, SC16LD6.5), an anti-DLL3 antibody-drug conjugate with a pyrrolobenzodiazepine payload for small-cell lung cancer; promising phase 1 results but phase 3 TAHOE and MERU failures ended development.
Rovaniemi
Rovaniemi, capital of Finnish Lapland on the Arctic Circle at the Kemijoki-Ounasjoki confluence, is the self-styled Official Hometown of Santa Claus, with 66,201 residents (2025), 8,017 km² area, and over 1.2 million overnight visitors in 2023.
Rovatirelin
Rovatirelin (KPS-0373, ロバチレリン) is an oral thyrotropin-releasing hormone analogue by Kissei/Shionogi for spinocerebellar degeneration ataxia; its phase 3 trials missed the primary SARA endpoint and its Japanese approval application was withdrawn in 2023.
Rove McManus
Rove McManus (John Henry Michael McManus, born 1974) is an Australian comedian, presenter, and producer, three-time Gold Logie winner, host of Rove Live 1999-2009, and founder of Roving Enterprises, producer of The Project.
Rove Tunnel
The Rove Tunnel (tunnel du Rove) is a disused canal tunnel near Marseille, France, linking the port to the Étang de Berre; closed since a 1963 collapse, it remains the world's longest canal tunnel.
Rovenkivskyi Raion
Rovenkivskyi Raion (Ровеньківський район), also Rovenky Raion, is a district of Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine, created in the 2020 reform with center Rovenky; population about 294,000, occupied by Russia since 2014.
Rover (marque)
Rover is a British automotive marque from Coventry, founded as a bicycle maker in 1878 and building cars from 1904 until its collapse in 2005.
Rover (space exploration)
A rover, or planetary rover, is a mobile vehicle that explores the surface of another celestial body, from the Soviet Lunokhod 1 of 1970 to NASA's Perseverance on Mars.
Rover 200 / 25
The Rover 200 / 25 was a small British hatchback built from 1995 to 2005, renamed the Rover 25 in 1999 and later spawning the MG ZR and Streetwise.
Rover 75
The Rover 75 is a front-wheel-drive executive saloon built by the British maker Rover from 1998 to 2005 under BMW ownership, and it later spawned the MG ZT.
Rover Company
The Rover Company was a British manufacturing firm founded in Coventry in 1878 as a bicycle maker, known for the 1885 Rover Safety bicycle and the Land Rover marque.
Rover Dangerfield
Rover Dangerfield (1991) is a G-rated animated musical comedy starring Rodney Dangerfield as the voice of a Las Vegas showgirl's dog dumped off Hoover Dam who lands on a farm; Hyperion Pictures production for Warner Bros., limited release, 17% Tomatometer.
Rover Group
Rover Group was a British volume car manufacturer, the successor to nationalized British Leyland, privatized in 1988, sold to BMW in 1994, and broken up by BMW in 2000.
Rover P6
The Rover P6 is a British executive saloon built at Solihull, England, from 1963 to 1977, sold as the 2000, 2200, and 3500 by engine size.
Rover SD1
The Rover SD1 is a large five-door hatchback executive car built by Rover from 1976 to 1986, winning the 1977 European Car of the Year award.
Rover Thomas
Rover Thomas, also known as Joolama (c. 1926–1998), was a Kukatja/Wangkajunga Aboriginal artist who painted in natural ochres and represented Australia at the 1990 Venice Biennale.
Rover V8 engine
The Rover V8 is a lightweight aluminum overhead-valve V8 petrol engine, originally the Buick 215, built in Britain from 1967 to 2005 in capacities from 3.5 to 5.0 liters.
Rovigo
Rovigo is a town in Veneto, Italy, capital of the Province of Rovigo in the Polesine between the Po and Adige rivers. First recorded in 838, ruled by the Este then Venice; notable for the 66-meter Torre Donà and about 50,000 residents.
Roving bridge
A roving bridge, also called a turnover or snake bridge, carries a canal towpath across the water so a towing horse can cross without detaching the towline.
Rovio Entertainment
Rovio Entertainment Ltd, Finnish mobile-first games studio founded 2003 as Relude, creator of Angry Birds (2009, over 5 billion downloads), The Angry Birds Movie films; acquired by SEGA in 2023 for EUR 706 million ($776 million), now SEGA-owned with a $200 million impairment in FY2026/3.
Rovman Powell
Rovman Powell, born 1993, Jamaican West Indies middle-order power-hitter and occasional medium pacer; West Indies T20I captain 2023-24, 107 off 53 vs England, 2024 T20 World Cup, IPL for KKR, Delhi and Rajasthan.
Rovo
Rovo is Atlassian's AI product line for enterprise search, conversational chat, and AI agents, announced in May 2024 as the successor to Atlassian Intelligence and powered by the Teamwork Graph.
Rovsing's sign
Rovsing's sign, also called indirect tenderness, is RLQ pain on LLQ palpation, described by Danish surgeon Niels Thorkild Rovsing in 1907 for appendicitis; low sensitivity, high specificity, original two-hand colon-compression technique often misdescribed.