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Remove
To take something away.
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Removal
The action of removing something.
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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.
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Remember
To bring back into the mind something which has been seen or heard before.
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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).
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Remedial
Acting as a cure.
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Relieve
To make something better or easier.
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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…
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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…
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Relaxative
US a drug which reduces stress.
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