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Burke. 2. A soldier or sailor newly enlisted to supply the deficiency of an army or a navy; one who has newly filled a vacancy in any body or cla of persons. The powers of Troy With fresh recruits their youthful chief sustain. Dryden. rectification Rectal anæsthesia, the administration of ether or other anesthetics by the rectum. - Rectal chemise. See chemise. Rectal crises, paroxysms of pain in the rectum, often with tenesmus, and sensations as of a foreign body, met with in cases of locomotor ataxia. Rectal dia phragm, the sheet of muscles closing the rectal outlet of the pelvis, consisting of the sphincter ani extern us superficially, and a deeper layer composed of the levator ani and coccygeus. - Rectal fi ure, a very painful crack like opening in the mucous membrane of the lower part of the rectum. Rectal glands. See gland . rectalgia (rek-tal'ji-ä), n . [NL., rectum , rectum, + Gr. ἄλγος , pain.] Neuralgia of the rectum: same as proctalgia . rectangle (rek'tang-gl), a . and n . [OF. (and F.) rectangle = Sp. rectángulo = Pg. rectangulo = It. rettangolo , rectangular, a rectangle, rectiangulum , having a right angle, rec tus , right, + angulus , an angle: see right and angle3.] I.t a . Rectangular; right-angled.