Loosening
91Laxity — (Roget s Thesaurus) >Absence of authority. < N PARAG:Laxity >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 laxity laxity Sgm: N 1 laxness laxness looseness slackness Sgm: N 1 toleration toleration &c.(lenity) 740 Sgm: N 1 freedom freedom …
92-lysis — scientific/medical suffix meaning loosening, dissolving, dissolution, from Gk. lysis a loosening, setting free, releasing, dissolution, from lyein to unfasten, loose, loosen, untie (see LOSE (Cf. lose)) …
93analysis — (n.) 1580s, resolution of anything complex into simple elements (opposite of synthesis), from M.L. analysis (15c.), from Gk. analysis a breaking up, a loosening, releasing, noun of action from analyein unloose, release, set free; to loose a ship… …
94lyso- — element indicating loosening, dissolving, freeing, before vowels lys , from comb. form of Gk. lysis a loosening (see LYSE (Cf. lyse)) …
95Schizophrenia: Recent Concepts — (See also Schizophrenia: Emergence.) After the Second World War, two contradictory tendencies hallmarked the approach to the psychoses and schizophrenia. One was the growing predominance of psychoanalysis, with its tendency to use the term… …
96Wernicke–Kleist–Leonhard Pathway — (from 1900) The central theme in this pathway is classifying psychotic illness not on the basis of outcome, as Kraepelin did, but on the basis of hypothetical underlying neurological impairment or common family history. The pathway had the… …
97Responsible Government — The mid nineteenth century extension of self government to British colonies possessing representative legislatures. The British North American colonies had been granted representative government that is to say elected assemblies at various… …
98deobstruent — I. a. (Med.) Laxative, aperient, loosening. II. n. (Med.) Laxative, aperient, loosening medicine …
99dig — vb Dig, delve, spade, grub, excavate mean to use a spade or similar utensil in breaking up the ground to a point below the surface and in turning or removing the earth or bringing to the surface of something below it. Dig, the commonest word,… …
100mollification — n 1. softening, softness, mellowing, relaxing, relaxation, loosening, loosening up, easing up; meekening, subdual, taming; pacification, appeasement, dulcification, tranquilization, composing. 2. mitigation, abatement, weakening, alleviation,… …
