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χάλ-α^σις [χα^], εως, ἡ,
A.slackening, loosening, of bandages, Hp. Fract.10 (pl.); “τῇ χ. τε καὶ ἀνέσει” Pl.R.590b; relaxation, “τοῦ ῥοώδους χαλάσεως δεομένου” Gal.Sect.Intr.7; τῶν στεγνῶν ib.6; but χ. νόσου remission, opp. ἐπίδοσις, Id.19.190.
2. free play of the parts of a whole, Plot.4.4.45; “τῇ χαλάσει εἰδοποιηθῆναι” Dam.Pr. 47.
3. lowering by means of pulleys, “κιόνων” University of Egypt, Faculty of Arts Bulletin 3(2).58.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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    • Plato, Republic, 590b
    • Hippocrates, De fracturis, 10
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