| LB | lamellar body; large bowel; left breast; left bronchus; left bundle; left buttock; leiomyoblastoma; ... |
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| LBM | lean body mass; loose bowel movement; lung basement membrane |
| loose | 1. Unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached, fastened, fixed, or confined; as, the loose sheets of a book. "Her hair, nor loose, nor tied in formal plat." (Shak) 2. Free from constraint or obligation; not bound by duty, habit, etc.; with from or of. "Now I stand Loose of my vow; but who knows Cato's thoughts ?" (Addison) 3. Not tight or close; as, a loose garment. 4. Not dense, close, compact, or crowded; as, a cloth of loose texture. "With horse and chariots ranked in loose array." (Milton) 5. Not precise or exact; vague; indeterminate; as, a loose style, or way of reasoning. "The comparison employed . . . Must be considered rather as a loose analogy than as an exact scientific explanation." (Whewel) 6. Not strict in matters of morality; not rigid according to some standard of right. "The loose morality which he had learned." (Sir W. Scott) 7. Unconnected; rambling. "Vario spends whole mornings in running over loose and unconnected pages." (I. Watts) 8. Lax; not costive; having lax bowels. 9. Dissolute; unchaste; as, a loose man or woman. "Loose ladies in delight." (Spenser) 10. Containing or consisting of obscene or unchaste language; as, a loose epistle. at loose ends, not in order; in confusion; carelessly managed. Fast and loose. See Fast. To break loose. See Break. Loose pulley. <machinery> See Fast and loose pulleys, under Fast. To let loose, to free from restraint or confinement; to set at liberty. Origin: OE. Loos, lous, laus, Icel. Lauss; akin to OD. Loos, D. Los, AS. Leas false, deceitful, G. Los, loose, Dan. & Sw. Los, Goth. Laus, and E. Lose. See Lose, and cf. Leasing falsehood. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| loose associations | A manifestation of a thought disorder whereby the patient's responses do not relate to the interviewer's questions or one paragraph, sentence, or phrase is not logically connected to those that occur before or after. (05 Mar 2000) |
| loose body | A solid tissue fragment lying free in a body cavity, especially in a joint or the peritoneal cavity; e.g., joint mice, melon-seed body, rice body. (05 Mar 2000) |
| loose cartilage | A loose piece of cartilage within a joint cavity, detached from the articular cartilage or from a meniscus. Synonym: loose cartilage. (05 Mar 2000) |
| loose skin | A group of connective tissue diseases in which skin hangs in loose pendulous folds. It is believed to be associated with decreased elastic tissue formation as well as an abnormality in elastin formation. Cutis laxa is usually a genetic disease, but acquired cases have been reported. (12 Dec 1998) |
| loosen | 1. To make loose; to free from tightness, tension, firmness, or fixedness; to make less dense or compact; as, to loosen a string, or a knot; to loosen a rock in the earth. "After a year's rooting, then shaking doth the tree good by loosening of the earth." (Bacon) 2. To free from restraint; to set at liberty. "It loosens his hands, and assists his understanding." (Dryden) 3. To remove costiveness from; to facilitate or increase the alvine discharges of. Origin: See Loose. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| loosening of association | A manifestation of a severe thought disorder characterised by the lack of an obvious connection between one thought or phrase and the next, or with the response to a question. (05 Mar 2000) |
| loosening of associations | A loss of the normal logical connections between one thought and the next, thus the schizophrenic speech is vague, rambling, disjointed or nonsensical. (27 Sep 1997) |
| Looser's lines | Radiolucent bands in the cortex of a bone; usually indicates osteomalacia. Synonym: Looser's zones. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Looser's zones | Radiolucent bands in the cortex of a bone; usually indicates osteomalacia. Synonym: Looser's zones. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Looser, Emil | <person> Swiss physician, 1877-1936. See: Looser's zones. (05 Mar 2000) |
| loosestrife | <botany> The name of several species of plants of the genus Lysimachia, having small star-shaped flowers, usually of a yellow colour. Any species of the genus Lythrum, having purple, or, in some species, crimson flowers. False loosestrife, a plant of the genus Ludwigia, which includes several species, most of which are found in the United States. Tufted loosestrife, the plant Lysimachia thyrsiflora, found in the northern parts of the United States and in Europe. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| joint loose bodies | Fibrous, bony, cartilaginous and osteocartilaginous fragments in a synovial joint. Major causes are osteochondritis dissecans, synovial chondromatosis, osteophytes, fractured articular surfaces and damaged menisci. (12 Dec 1998) |
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loosely articulated or constructed; "a loose-jointed paragraph"
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| loosening |
relaxation: an occurrence of control or strength weakening; "the relaxation of requirements"; "the loosening of his grip"; "the slackening of the wind" the act of making something less tight
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not restrained or confined or attached; "a pocket full of loose bills"; "knocked the ball loose"; "got loose from his attacker" not compact or dense in structure or arrangement; "loose gravel" (of a ball in sport) not in the possession or control of any player; "a loose ball" not tight; not closely constrained or constricted or constricting; "loose clothing"; "the large shoes were very loose" informal: not officially recognized or controlled; "an informal agreement"; "a loose organization of the local farmers" free: not literal; "a loose interpretation of what she had been told"; "a free translation of the poem" lax: emptying easily or excessively; "loose bowels" unaffixed: not affixed; "the stamp came loose" not tense or taut; "the old man's skin hung loose and grey"; "slack and wrinkled skin"; "slack sails"; "a slack rope" (of textures) full of small openings or gaps; "an open texture"; "a loose weave" not fixed firmly or tightly; "the bolts became loose over time"; "a loose chair leg"; "loose bricks" idle: lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility; "idle talk"; "a loose tongue" not carefully arranged in a package; "a box of loose nails" free: grant freedom to; free from confinement freely producing mucus; "a loose phlegmy cough" unleash: turn loose or free from restraint; "let loose mines"; "Loose terrible plagues upon humanity" at large(p): having escaped, especially from confinement; "a convict still at large"; "searching for two escaped prisoners"; "dogs loose on the streets"; "criminals on the loose in the neighborhood" loosen: make loose or looser; "loosen the tension on a rope" easy: casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior; "her easy virtue"; "he was told to avoid loose (or light) women"; "wanton behavior" not bound or fastened or gathered together; "loose pages"; "loose papers" loosen: become loose or looser or less tight; "The noose loosened"; "the rope relaxed" without restraint; "cows in India are running loose"
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| loose fracture |
a fracture in which the bone is completely broken so that the broken ends have free play.
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A disturbance of thinking shown by speech in which ideas shift from one subject to another that is unrelated or minimally related to the first. Statements that lack a meaningful relationship may be juxtaposed, or speech may shift suddenly from one frame of reference to another. The speaker gives no indication of being aware of the disconnectedness, contradictions, or illogicality of speech.
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| loose | become loose or looser or less tight |
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| loose | make loose or looser |
| loose | turn loose or free from restraint |
| loose | grant freedom to |
| loose | not affixed |
| loose | not bound or fastened or gathered together |
| loose | casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior |
| loose | not compact or dense in structure or arrangement |
| loose | (of a ball in sport) not in the possession or control of any player |
| loose | emptying easily or excessively |
| loose | not literal |
| loose | having escaped, especially from confinement |
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