(a) To loosen (a bandage, compress, stitches), ease tension or pressure on (sth.); diminish (swelling), soften (hardness of a bodily part); relax (muscles), ease (rigidness in the body); (b) to……

(a) Med. & pathol. To fill (a wound) with new flesh, cause tissue to generate in (a wound); also, of humors, fat: fill or distend (part of the body); ppl. repleting as adj.: regenerative of tissue……