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Explaining Change Healthcare and the gravity of its cyberattack
The contrast between the proactive and aggressive protective mechanisms in place in the financial services sector and the relative laxity in health care’s critical IT infrastructure is striking and unsustainable.
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Jonathan Slotkin and David Vawdrey, STAT, 14 Mar. 2024
Those with minimal skin laxity who are in the market for prevention will perhaps benefit most.
—Isabella Ubaldi, Health, 20 Mar. 2024
Plus, weight loss could neither help eliminate my concern altogether nor the skin laxity in the area.
—Kirbie Johnson, Allure, 6 Mar. 2024
In some ways, this shift felt entirely predictable, as if a rubber band stretched tight had snapped back to laxity.
—Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 5 Mar. 2024
Body-firming creams help to address the appearance of skin laxity and crepiness.
—Jenny Berg, Vogue, 24 Feb. 2024
Pratt hit his first four shots in the opening 5:46 then Jamison scored eight quick points midway through the first half to keep it a one-possession game despite UWM's laxity with the basketball.
—Todd Rosiak, Journal Sentinel, 18 Jan. 2024
In the case of the face, collagen works alongside elastic to create a latticework in the dermis, a mesh of fibers that tones it, prevents skin laxity, and prevents expression lines from turning into permanent wrinkles.
—Alessandra Signorelli, Glamour, 24 Oct. 2023
In the 2017 study above, researchers set out to find out if knuckle-crackers compared to non-knuckle crackers experience more swelling, weakness, joint laxity, or differences in range of motion.
—Brittany Edelmann, Discover Magazine, 3 Jan. 2024
Jonathan Slotkin and David Vawdrey, STAT, 14 Mar. 2024
Those with minimal skin laxity who are in the market for prevention will perhaps benefit most.
—Isabella Ubaldi, Health, 20 Mar. 2024
Plus, weight loss could neither help eliminate my concern altogether nor the skin laxity in the area.
—Kirbie Johnson, Allure, 6 Mar. 2024
In some ways, this shift felt entirely predictable, as if a rubber band stretched tight had snapped back to laxity.
—Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 5 Mar. 2024
Body-firming creams help to address the appearance of skin laxity and crepiness.
—Jenny Berg, Vogue, 24 Feb. 2024
Pratt hit his first four shots in the opening 5:46 then Jamison scored eight quick points midway through the first half to keep it a one-possession game despite UWM's laxity with the basketball.
—Todd Rosiak, Journal Sentinel, 18 Jan. 2024
In the case of the face, collagen works alongside elastic to create a latticework in the dermis, a mesh of fibers that tones it, prevents skin laxity, and prevents expression lines from turning into permanent wrinkles.
—Alessandra Signorelli, Glamour, 24 Oct. 2023
In the 2017 study above, researchers set out to find out if knuckle-crackers compared to non-knuckle crackers experience more swelling, weakness, joint laxity, or differences in range of motion.
—Brittany Edelmann, Discover Magazine, 3 Jan. 2024
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“Laxity.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/laxity. Accessed 24 Apr. 2024.
Copy CitationKids Definition
laxity
noun
lax·ity
ˈlak-sət-ē 
: the quality or state of being lax
Medical Definition
laxity
noun
lax·i·ty
ˈlak-sət-ē
plural laxities
: the quality or state of being loose
a certain laxity of the bowels
ligamentous laxity
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