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releasin (medicine)


releasin -->
relaxin
<protein> Polypeptide hormone produced by corpus luteum and found in the blood of pregnant animals. Acts, as its name suggests, to cause muscle relaxation during parturition. Human relaxin has an A chain of 24 amino acids and a B chain of 29. Has structural similarity to insulin.


principle (iou)



principle noun & verb. LME.
[Anglo-Norman var. of Old & mod. French principe formed as PRINCIPIUM.]
A. noun.
I. Beginning, commencement; the original state of something. LME-L17.
The origin or source of something. obsolete exc. as in sense 3 below. LME.
A fundamental cause or basis of something; a primary element, force, or law determining a particular result. LME.
R. L. Fox Weaponry, the main principle of his military Success.
An original or native tendency; a natural disposition, esp. as the source of some action. LME.
W. James The deepest principle of Human Nature.
II.
A fundamental truth or proposition on which others depend; a General statement or tenet forming the basis of a system of belief etc.; a primary assumption forming the basis of a chain of reasoning. LME.
anthropic principle, Archimedes' principle, exclusion principle, Mach's principle, etc.
D. Cusack His two sacred principles..the significance..and the progressive deterioration of all literature.
b. Physics etc. A General or inclusive theorem or law, having numerous special applications across a wide field. Cf. LAW noun1 15. E18.
a. A General law or rule adopted or professed as a guide to action; a fundamental motive or reason for action. M16.
A. S. Dale Destroy himself and his party for a principle. S. Naipaul Cherished principles of racial and economic equality.
b. A personal code of right action; rectitude, honourable character. Usu. in pl. M17.
M. Dickens You've got no principles. R. P. Jhabvala Some principles, some sense of right and wrong.
A fundamental quality or attribute determining the Nature of something; (an) essence. M17.
Times The principle of active energetic evil. D. Lodge The combination of male and female principles.
A motive force, esp. in a machine. M17-M19.
A natural law forming the basis of the construction or operation of a machine etc. E19.
III.
In pl. The elementary aspects of a field of study; rudiments. obsolete exc. as passing into sense 5. M16.
A component part, a constituent, an element. obsolete exc. as below. E17.
b. Chemistry (now Hist.). Each of five simple substances or elements of which all bodies were once believed to be composed, usu. comprising spirit, oil, salt, water, and earth. M17.
c. Chemistry. A constituent of a substance obtained by simple analysis, esp. (as active principle, bitter principle, etc.) one giving rise to a characteristic property. arch. M17.
H. Davy The narcotic principle is found..in opium.
Phrases: concupiscible principle: see CONCUPISCIBLE adjective 1. first principle a primary proposition upon which further reasoning is based (freq. in pl.). in principle theoretically. on General principles in General, for no specified reason. on principle (a) on the basis of a moral code or principle; (b) according to a fixed rule. principle of Archimedes: see ARCHIMEDES 2. principle of bivalence: see BIVALENCE noun 2. principle of duality Math. the principle that all theorems relating to points and lines have reciprocal theorems by substituting line for point and point for line. principle of equivalence: see EQUIVALENCE 1. principle of excluded middle, principle of excluded third: see EXCLUDE verb 5. principle of INDETERMINACY. principle of LEAST action. principle of LEAST constraint. principle of least squares: see SQUARE noun.
B. verb trans.
Ground (a person) in the principles or elements of a subject; instruct, train. E17-M18.
Give rise to; originate. M-L17.