Category: R
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Relaxative
US a drug which reduces stress.
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Relaxation therapy
A treatment in which people are encouraged to relax their muscles to reduce stress. Treatment by teaching a patient to decrease his anxiety by reducing the tone in his muscles. This can be used by itself to help people cope with stressful situations or as a part of desensitization to specific fears. This is treatment…
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Relax
To become less tense, or cause someone or something to become less tense. To decrease tension or intensity; to be rid of strain, anxiety, and nervousness.
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Relative density
The ratio of the density of a substance to the density of a standard substance at the same temperature and pressure. For liquids and solids the standard substance is usually water, and for gases, it is air.
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Relate
To connect something to something else.
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Relapsing pancreatitis
A form of pancreatitis where the symptoms recur, but in a less painful form.
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Relapsing fever
A disease caused by a bacterium, where attacks of fever recur from time to time. Infectious disease caused by Borrelia microorganisms and transmitted by lice and ticks, most common in South America, Africa, and Asia. It is characterized by 2- or 3-day episodes of high fever, chills, headache, muscle pains, and nausea, sometimes with a…
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Reject
To refuse to accept something. To be unable to tolerate tissue or an organ transplanted from another body because it is immunologically incompatible. To be unable to keep food down and vomit it up again.
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Reinfection
Infection of an area for another time after recovery, especially with the same microorganism. A second infection by the same organism.
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Reinfect
To infect someone or something again.