See Also: remanent(medicine)
remanent(dictionary)
REMANENT PRO DEFECTU EMPTORUM, practice(law)

Addiction (law) and remanent (medicine)


Addiction (law)




A physiological and psychological compulsion for a habit-forming substance. In extreme cases, an Addiction may become an overwhelming obsession.





remanent (medicine)


remanent


Remaining; residual. "That little hope that is remanent hath its degree according to the infancy or growth of the habit." (Jer.

<physics> Taylor) Remanent magnetism, magnetism which remains in a body that has little coercive force after the magnetizing force is withdrawn, as soft iron.

Synonym: residual magnetism.

Origin: L. Remanens, p. Pr. Of remanere. See Remain, and cf. Remnant.

Source: Websters Dictionary