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Left-ratio and right-ratio in (not necessarily commutative) field

I am reading Birkhoff–Neumann (1936) about (not necessarily commutative) field $F$. The authors use terms right-ratio and left-ratio in section 13. Right-ratio is denoted as $[x_1, x_2, ... ...
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Does this notion of morphism of noncommutative rings appear in the ring theory literature?

Definition: Let $R, S$ be two rings. A classical morphism $\phi : R \to S$ is a function from elements of $R$ to elements of $S$ which restricts to a homomorphism (of rings, in the usual sense) on ...