prerelax

present singular third person prerelaxes · participle present prerelaxing · participle past prerelaxed · past prerelaxed

1. To relax beforehand.

   The tissue is first prerelaxed with nitroprusside and response allowed to stabilize.

   1993, S. Karger, Pharmacology - Volumes 46-47, page 356

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   Anyway, systematic investigations of the diffusion in nanocrystal line materials, which have been prerelaxed to different extents, very likely will help to clarify questions on this subject matter in a similar way as it was possible for the amorphous alloys.

   1990, F. J Kedves, D. L. Beke, Diffusion in metals and alloys - Parts 1-3, →ISBN, page 224

   heat setting: a process to prerelax a spring in order to improve stress-relaxation resistance in service.

   1996, Joseph Edward Shigley, Charles R. Mischke, Standard Handbook of Machine Design, →ISBN, page 24-3

   To prevent paradoxic loss of wrinkles with strong contraction, we partially prerelaxed the pericytes with SNP, a source of nitric oxide.

   1997, Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science