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relaxation (iou) and cancer, bone (medicine)


relaxation (iou)



relaxation noun. LME.
[Latin relaxatio(n-), from relaxat- pa. ppl stem of relaxare: see RELAX verb, -ATION.]
a. Partial (or, formerly, complete) remission of a penalty, burden, duty, etc. Formerly also, the document granting this. LME.
b. Release from a legal penalty, spec. that of diligence or outlawry. Scot. obsolete exc. Hist. M16.
c. Release from captivity. E17.
d. Hist. The process of handing over a heretic to the Inquisition for judgement and execution. Cf. RELAX verb 2b. E19.
a. Release from mental or physical tension, esp. by recreation or rest. M16.
b. Physiology. The loss of tension in a part of the body, spec. in a muscle when it ceases to contract; the state of a resting muscle. E17.
Diminution or reduction of strictness or severity. E17.
D. M. Thomas I mixed a little painting with my poetry, just as relaxation. P. Dally The beneficial effects of opium are relaxation and tranquillity.
Abatement of force or intensity. L17.
F. Spalding Some penalties..disappeared and there was a slight relaxation of the rules.
Chiefly Physics. The gradual return of a system towards equilibrium; the reduction of stress caused by gradual plastic deformation in material held at constant strain. Freq. attrib. M19.
C. Pebody Stuart complains..of his relaxation of energy.
Engineering & Math. A method of solving a set of simultaneous equations by guessing a solution and successively modifying it to accord with whichever equation or constraint is currently least closely satisfied. Freq. attrib. M20.
Comb.: relaxation oscillator Electricity: in which sharp, sometimes aperiodic oscillations result from the rapid discharge of a capacitor or inductance; relaxation time Physics the time taken for a system to return to a state of equilibrium; spec. (when the process of return is exponential) the time taken for the deviation from equilibrium to be reduced by a factor e (approx. 2.718).

cancer, bone (medicine)


cancer, bone
Cancer of the skeleton. Cancers that begin in bone are rare but it is not unusual for cancers to spread (metastasize) to bone from Other parts of the body. This is not called bone cancer, but is named for the organ or tissue in which the cancer begins. Pain is the most frequent symptom of cancer of the bone. Diagnosis of cancer of the bone is supported by findings of the medical history and examination, blood and X-ray tests and confirmed with a biopsy.