(n.) To make lax or loose; to make less close, firm, rigid, tense, or the like; to slacken; to loosen; to open; as, to relax a rope or cord; to relax the muscles or sinews.
(n.) To make less severe or rigorous; to abate the stringency of; to remit in respect to strenuousness, earnestness, or effort; as, to relax discipline; to relax one's attention or endeavors.
(n.) Hence, to relieve from attention or effort; to ease; to recreate; to divert; as, amusement relaxes the mind.
(n.) To relieve from constipation; to loosen; to open; as, an aperient relaxes the bowels.
(v. i.) To become lax, weak, or loose; as, to let one's grasp relax.
(v. i.) To abate in severity; to become less rigorous.
(v. i.) To remit attention or effort; to become less diligent; to unbend; as, to relax in study.
(n.) Relaxation.
(a.) Relaxed; lax; hence, remiss; careless.
Example Sentences:
(1) The vascular endothelium is capable of regulating tissue perfusion by the release of endothelium-derived relaxing factor to modulate vasomotor tone of the resistance vasculature.
(2) Arteries treated with atrial natriuretic peptide showed no alterations in relaxation or cGMP content after incubation with pertussis toxin.
(3) For dental procedures requiring tracheal intubation, one could perhaps use non-depolarizing muscle relaxants, like pancuronium, with reversal at the end of the procedure.
(4) In in vitro preparations GABA (10(-7) - 10(-3) M) elicited a dose-dependent relaxation; a decrease in the spontaneous contractions was sometimes observed.
(5) Anaesthesia was achieved by a mixture of oxygen, nitrous oxide and fluothane without use of muscle relaxants.
(6) A more accurate fit of T1 data using a modified Lipari and Szabo approach indicates that internal fast motions dominate the T1 relaxation in glycogen.
(7) Endothelium-dependent relaxations to acetylcholine and endothelium-independent relaxations to nitric oxide were observed in rings from both strains during contraction with endothelin.
(8) Relaxation situations are marked by relaxation, usually after a meal.
(9) The rabbits were either breathing spontaneously or were ventilated by a phrenic nerve-controlled servorespirator without the use of muscle relaxants.
(10) For each RG patient, two sex, age, and initial diastolic blood pressure (DBP) matched controls were found, obtaining thus a control group (CG) consisting of 70 hypertensive patients who were not participating in any relaxation program.
(11) Under the condition in which ryanodine (10-100 microM) treatment was found to cause the SR to be nonfunctional, pinacidil relaxation DRC remained unaltered, suggesting a lack of a stimulatory effect of pinacidil on SR Ca++ accumulation.
(12) which suggest that ~60-90% of the cross-bridges attached in rigor are attached in relaxed fibers at an ionic strength of 20 mM and ~2-10% of this number of cross-bridges are attached in a relaxed fiber at an ionic strength of 170 mM.
(13) Trimazosin at the dose used and under the conditions of study did not reverse the peripheral pressor effect of angiotensin II or B-HT920 but at higher concentrations, unlike prazosin, it relaxed the K+ contracted thoracic aorta.
(14) The relaxations in response to a nonreceptor-mediated endothelium-dependent vasodilator, A23187, and an endothelium-independent vasodilator, sodium nitroprusside, were not different between normal and diabetic aortas.
(15) Nitric oxide (NO) is a major component of endothelium-derived relaxing factor (EDRF) the synthesis of which from L-arginine can be inhibited by NG-monomethyl-L-arginine (L-NMMA).
(16) Binding to HSA occurs primarily with the imidazolidine and thiazolidine groups of levamisole as it has been demonstrated by selective changes in the relaxation times and the chemical shifts of the protons attached to the carbon atoms.
(17) We conclude that gastric adaptive relaxation remains abnormal in patients with postvagotomy diarrhoea but not in those who are asymptomatic or who have other symptoms.
(18) Nitric oxide (NO) induced tetrodotoxin-resistant NANC relaxation, similar to that induced by electrical stimulation or acetylcholine (ACh).
(19) Treatment of bacterial cells with inhibitors of gyrase at high concentration leads to relaxation of DNA supercoils, presumably through interference with the supercoiling activity of gyrase.
(20) The kinetics of extracellular neutral proteinase synthesis by an isogenic stringent (IS58) and a relaxed (IS56) strain of B. subtilis were compared.
Unbend
Definition:
(v. t.) To free from flexure; to make, or allow to become, straight; to loosen; as, to unbend a bow.
(v. t.) A remit from a strain or from exertion; to set at ease for a time; to relax; as, to unbend the mind from study or care.
(v. t.) To unfasten, as sails, from the spars or stays to which they are attached for use.
(v. t.) To cast loose or untie, as a rope.
(v. i.) To cease to be bent; to become straight or relaxed.
(v. i.) To relax in exertion, attention, severity, or the like; hence, to indulge in mirth or amusement.
Example Sentences:
(1) Given President Afwerki’s unbending resistance to such moves in the past, there is reason to be sceptical.
(2) Though far from a scholarship boy and privately educated, my life was changed by The Uses of Literacy in 1959. Who can forget some of its chapter mottoes, from Wordsworth, de Tocqueville, Arnold and "Schnozzle" Durante, and the chapter titles Unbending the Springs of Action and Invitations to a Candy-Floss World?
(3) His unbending obsession was with benefits for people of working age.
(4) There state employees protected by labour rules and given higher wages – the result of years of unbending trade unionism – have seen work decline precipitously.
(5) She provoked uproar with her 2011 memoir, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother , charting her unbending rules for raising her daughters, and spent two years dealing with the fallout, including death threats, racial slurs and pitchfork-waving calls for her arrest on child-abuse charges.
(6) Integrating a large group of people into Apple's strong, unbending culture would, alone, prove to be impossible.
(7) This premelting may correspond to the thermally induced "unbending" of the duplex.
(8) The Paris COP 21 talks surpassed expectations in rising to it, demonstrating just how much can be achieved by determined diplomacy, even while working within the unbending red lines of jealously sovereign states.
(9) They did not need to be confronted by an unbending foot soldier of the Irish Taliban.
(10) Wenderoth and O'Connor (1987b) reported that, although matches to the straight edge of two triangles placed apex to apex revealed an apparent bending in the direction of the chevron formed by the hypotenuse pair (the Bourdon effect), no perceptual unbending of the bent chevron occurred.
(11) In both data sets, there was a large and significant pretest bending effect, which enhanced the magnitude of unbending test minus pretest scores.
(12) In these cases, what began as a relatively small and contained protest against a university administration - a protest by the young and impatient against the old and unbending - burgeoned into a mass movement against the government.
(13) And those who want Britain to remain an open society should not assume the public is unbendingly hostile.
(14) We obtained Bourdon effects similar to those in Experiment 1, but much larger unbending effects.
(15) There is frustration among the population with what is perceived as the unbending attitude of the lenders.
(16) We propose that subjective obtuse angle contraction that exceeds real obtuse angle contraction explains the fact that unbending effects are larger in subjective than in real contours.
(17) Nevertheless, Bourdon effects were significantly larger than unbending effects in one set of data; and in another, Bourdon test means were larger than unbending test means.
(18) Born in postwar rationing, the Defender feels as quintessentially British as the Queen, Churchill or Bond, among the other national icons who have been plonked atop its unbending chassis.
(19) The aim of the reposition is to correct the axis of the vertebra by means of reestablishment of the shape and mass of the injured vertebra body by unbending and simultaneous stretching the vertebral column.
(20) That state of deprivation though is, of course, the condition that many of those rioting endure as their unbending reality.