A shortening of a muscle during its use.
The acquisition of something, generally negative.
A period of economic decline or negative growth.
Syncope, the loss of sounds from within a word.
A process whereby one or more sounds of a free morpheme (a word) are lost or reduced, such that it becomes a bound morpheme (a clitic) that attaches phonologically to an adjacent word.
A strong and often painful shortening of the uterine muscles prior to or during childbirth.
A shorthand symbol indicating an omission for the purpose of brevity.
A reversible reduction in size.
A word with omitted letters replaced by an apostrophe, usually resulting from the above process.
The process of contracting a disease.
A distinct stage of wound healing, wherein the wound edges are gradually pulled together.
The long bone in the forearm, on the side of the thumb.
The lighter bone (or fused portion of bone) in the forelimb of an animal.
A line segment between any point of a circle or sphere and its center.
One of the major veins of the insect wing, between the subcosta and the media; the vein running along the costal edge of the discal cell.
Anything resembling a radius, such as the spoke of a wheel, the movable arm of a sextant, or one of the radiating lines of a spider's web.
The length of this line segment.