absolution
remission
remittal
remission of sin | the act of absolving or remitting, formal redemption as pronounced by a priest in the sacrament of penance |
remission remitment
remit | (law) the act of remitting (especially the referral of a law case to another court) |
spontaneous abortion
miscarriage
stillbirth | a natural loss of the products of conception |
regression
regress
reversion retrogression
retroversion | returning to a former state |
electrotherapy
galvanism
electric healing
electrical healing | the therapeutic application of electricity to the body (as in the treatment of various forms of paralysis) |
faith healing
faith cure | care provided through prayer and faith in God |
regression
simple regression
regression toward the mean
statistical regression | the relation between selected values of x and observed values of y (from which the most probable value of y can be predicted for any value of x) |
multiple regression
multiple correlation | a statistical technique that predicts values of one variable on the basis of two or more other variables |
| regression analysis | the use of regression to make quantitative predictions of one variable from the values of another |
regression equation
regression of y on x | the equation representing the relation between selected values of one variable (x) and observed values of the other (y), it permits the prediction of the most probable values of y |
| regression coefficient | when the regression line is linear (y axb) the regression coefficient is the constant (a) that represents the rate of change of one variable (y) as a function of changes in the other (x), it is the slope of the regression line |
linear regression
rectilinear regression | the relation between variables when the regression equation is linear: e.g., y axb |
| curvilinear regression | the relation between variables when the regression equation is nonlinear (quadratic or higher order) |
regression line
regression curve | a smooth curve fitted to the set of paired data in regression analysis, for linear regression the curve is a straight line |
remission
remittal
subsidence | an abatement in intensity or degree (as in the manifestations of a disease), his cancer is in remission |
comfrey
healing herb | leaves make a popular tisane, young leaves used in salads or cooked |
abiogenesis
autogenesis
autogeny
spontaneous generation | a hypothetical organic phenomenon by which living organisms are created from nonliving matter |
remittance
remittal
remission
remitment | a payment of money sent to a person in another place |
| healing | the natural process by which the body repairs itself |
| regression | (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which you flee from reality by assuming a more infantile state |
| spontaneous combustion | ignition of a substance (as oily rags) resulting from an internal oxidation process |
arrested development
fixation
infantile fixation
regression | an abnormal state in which development has stopped prematurely |
curative
healing(p)
alterative
remedial
sanative
therapeutic | tending to cure or restore to health, curative powers of herbal remedies, her gentle healing hand, remedial surgery, a sanative environment of mountains and fresh air, a therapeutic agent, therapeutic diets |
ad-lib
spontaneous
unwritten | said or done without having been planned or written in advance, he made a few ad-lib remarks |
spontaneous
self-generated | happening or arising without apparent external cause, spontaneous laughter, spontaneous combustion, a spontaneous abortion |