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  • Remove

    To take something away.  

  • Removal

    The action of removing something.  

  • Remittent fever

    Fever which goes down for a period each day, like typhoid fever. The team applied to the form of fever in which, from time to time, the temperature falls, but not the normal. A pattern of fever that varies over a 24-hr period but does not return to normal.  

  • Remember

    To bring back into the mind something which has been seen or heard before.  

  • Remedy

    A cure, a drug which will cure. In law, something which a court (or a statute) grants to redress a wrong or make an injured person whole. The most common remedy is money. Another, less common remedy is an injunction (ordering the defendant to do something or stop doing something).  

  • Remedial

    Acting as a cure.  

  • Relieve

    To make something better or easier.  

  • Release

    The process of allowing something to go out. A giving up of a legal claim or right, to the person against whom the claim could have been asserted. For example, when a malpractice case is settled, the injured patient signs a release freeing the physician and hospital from any further liability for the injury, in…

  • Relaxin

    A hormone which is secreted by the placenta to make the cervix relax and open fully in the final stages of pregnancy before childbirth. A small peptide hormone produced by the corpus luteum of the ovary during the first and second trimesters of pregnancy. It is structurally similar to insulin with two peptide chains (A…

  • Relaxative

    US a drug which reduces stress.    

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