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loss

 [laws]
the amount by which a quantity or group is diminished; something that escapes from its owner's possession.
hearing loss see hearing loss.
insensible loss (insensible water loss) the amount of fluid lost on a daily basis from the lungs, skin, and respiratory tract, as well as water excreted in the feces; the exact amount cannot be measured, but it is estimated to be between 40 cc and 600 cc in an adult under normal circumstances. See also sweating.
Miller-Keane Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health, Seventh Edition. © 2003 by Saunders, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc. All rights reserved.

loss

Vox populi A diminution, attenuation of a process or activity. See Acute blood loss, Conductive hearing loss, Fractional allelic loss, Hard loss of stability, Hearing loss, Noise-induced hearing loss, Nitrogen loss, Occupational hearing loss, Postlingual loss, Prelingual loss, Specific ionization loss, Stop loss.
McGraw-Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

loss

(laws)
Deprivation, bereavement; failure to retain possession or control of something.
[O.E. los]
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These losses rarely involve the numbness stage for more than a brief time, unless the grief is for the loss of a practice or a crippling attack on the physician's social or economic status, as happens with malpractice suits.
But Johnson thought he'd found a way out--a potential tax loophole that would allow the native corporations to sell their losses to profitable companies seeking tax write-offs.
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