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Sensory integration
A form of occupational therapy in which special exercises are used to strengthen the patient's sense of touch (tactile), sense of balance (vestibular), and sense of where the body and its parts are in space (proprioceptive). It appears to…
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- Blood in the eye Medically known as a subconjunctival hemorrhage. A very common cause of a painless bloody eye usually first…
- Diabetes Diabetes: Refers to diabetes mellitus or, less often, to diabetes insipidus. Diabetes mellitus and diabetes…
- Herpesvirus One of a family of double-stranded DNA viruses that cause common infections in humans. These include: herpes…
- Contrast nephropathy A form of acute renal failure that starts soon after administration of contrast media (dye) for X-rays. The…
- Neoplastic Pertaining to a neoplasm or neoplasia. See those terms for more information.
- Caudal epidural anesthesia See Caudal anesthesia
- Hypnosis A part of healing from ancient times. The induction of trance states and the use of therapeutic suggestion…
- Hallucinosis, musical See: Musical hallucination
- Utility In the analysis of health outcomes, utility is a number between 0 and 1 that is assigned to a state of health…
- High altitude Altitude sickness occurs at high altitude. So what is high altitude? Altitude is defined on the following…
- Bone, wing Familiar term for the scapula, also called the shoulder blade or blade bone, the flat triangular bone at the…