| Rel | <oncogene> Protein that acts as a transcription factor. It was first identified as the oncogene product of the lethal, avian retrovirus Rev T. It has a N terminal region of 300 amino acids that is similar to the N terminal regions of NF_B sub units. (18 Nov 1997) |
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| relapse | The return of symptoms and signs of a disease after a period of improvement. (12 May 1997) |
| relapsing | Marked by a relapse; falling back; tending to return to a former worse state. <medicine> Relapsing fever, an acute, epidemic, contagious fever, which prevails also endemically in Ireland, Russia, and some other regions. It is marked by one or two remissions of the fever, by articular and muscular pains, and by the presence, during the paroxism of spiral bacterium (Spirochaete) in the blood. It is not usually fatal. Synonym: famine fever, and recurring fever. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| relapsing appendicitis | Repeated episodes of right lower quadrant abdominal pain attributed to recurrence of inflammation of the appendix in an individual who did not have an appendectomy for prior episodes. Synonym: relapsing appendicitis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| relapsing fever | An acute infection characterised by recurrent episodes of pyrexia alternating with asymptomatic intervals of apparent recovery. This condition has worldwide distribution and is caused by spirochetes of the genus borrelia. (12 Dec 1998) |
| relapsing malaria | Renewal of clinical activity at some interval after the primary attack. (05 Mar 2000) |
| relapsing perichondritis | A degenerative disease of cartilage producing a bizarre form of arthritis, with collapse of the ears, the cartilaginous portion of the nose, and the tracheobronchial tree; death may occur from chronic infection or suffocation because of loss of stability in the tracheobronchial tree of autosomal origin. Synonym: chronic atrophic polychondritis, generalised chondromalacia, Meyenburg's disease, Meyenburg-Altherr-Uehlinger syndrome, relapsing perichondritis, systemic chondromalacia, von Meyenburg's disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| relapsing polychondritis | A degenerative disease of cartilage producing a bizarre form of arthritis, with collapse of the ears, the cartilaginous portion of the nose, and the tracheobronchial tree; death may occur from chronic infection or suffocation because of loss of stability in the tracheobronchial tree of autosomal origin. Synonym: chronic atrophic polychondritis, generalised chondromalacia, Meyenburg's disease, Meyenburg-Altherr-Uehlinger syndrome, relapsing perichondritis, systemic chondromalacia, von Meyenburg's disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| relate | 1. To bring back; to restore. " Abate your zealous haste, till morrow next again Both light of heaven and strength of men relate." (Spenser) 2. To refer; to ascribe, as to a source. 3. To recount; to narrate; to tell over. "This heavy act with heavy heart relate." (Shak) 4. To ally by connection or kindred. To relate one's self, to vent thoughts in words. Synonym: To tell, recite, narrate, recount, rehearse, report, detail, describe. Origin: F. Relater to recount, LL. Relatare, fr. L. Relatus, used as p. P. Of referre. See Elate, and cf. Refer. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| related | 1. Allied by kindred; connected by blood or alliance, particularly by consanguinity; as, persons related in the first or second degree. 2. Standing in relation or connection; as, the electric and magnetic forcec are closely related. 3. Narrated; told. 4. Same as Relative. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| relation | 1. The act of relating or telling; also, that which is related; recital; account; narration; narrative; as, the relation of historical events. "oet's relation doth well figure them." (Bacon) 2. The state of being related or of referring; what is apprehended as appertaining to a being or quality, by considering it in its bearing upon something else; relative quality or condition; the being such and such with regard or respect to some other thing; connection; as, the relation of experience to knowledge; the relation of master to servant. "Any sort of connection which is perceived or imagined between two or more things, or any comparison which is made by the mind, is a relation." (I. Taylor) 3. Reference; respect; regard. "I have been importuned to make some observations on this art in relation to its agreement with poetry." (Dryden) 4. Connection by consanguinity or affinity; kinship; relationship; as, the relation of parents and children. "Relations dear, and all the charities Of father, son, and brother, first were known." (Milton) 5. A person connected by cosanguinity or affinity; a relative; a kinsman or kinswoman. "For me . . . My relation does not care a rush." (Ld. Lytton) 6. The carrying back, and giving effect or operation to, an act or proceeding frrom some previous date or time, by a sort of fiction, as if it had happened or begun at that time. In such case the act is said to take effect by relation. The act of a relator at whose instance a suit is begun. Synonym: Recital, rehearsal, narration, account, narrative, tale, detail, description, kindred, kinship, consanguinity, affinity, kinsman, kinswoman. Origin: F. Relation, L. Relatio. See Relate. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| relational threshold | The smallest degree of difference between two stimuli that permits them to be perceived as different. (05 Mar 2000) |
| relationship | The state of being related, associated, or connected. (05 Mar 2000) |
| relative | One who, or that which, relates to, or is considered in its relation to, something else; a relative object or term; one of two object or term; one of two objects directly connected by any relation. Specifically: A person connected by blood or affinity; strictly, one allied by blood; a relation; a kinsman or kinswoman. "Confining our care . . . To ourselves and relatives." . A relative prnoun; a word which relates to, or represents, another word or phrase, called its antecedent; as, the relatives " who", "which", "that". Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| relative accommodation | Quantity of accommodation required for single binocular vision for any specified distance, or for any particular degree of convergence. (05 Mar 2000) |