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Massage
The manipulation of muscle and connective tissue to enhance the function of those tissues and promote relaxation and well-being. Therapeutic massage can ease tension and reduce pain. Massage can be a part of physical therapy or practiced…
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- Venomous 1. Full of venom. 2. Having venom, like some snakes and insects. 3. By extension, noxious, as a venomous…
- Time, prothrombin A clotting test, the prothrombin time is done to test the integrity of part of the clotting scheme. The…
- Osteoid osteoma A benign tumor of bone tissue. It emerges most often in the teens or 20s, and is found most frequently in the…
- Status epilepticus An epileptic seizure that lasts more than 30 minutes; a constant or near-constant state of having seizures…
- Kinetic With movement. The opposite of kinetic is akinetic. It means without movement. In neurology, kinetic and…
- ACL injury See: Anterior cruciate injury
- Nictitate To wink. Nictitating spasm is spasm of the eyelid with continuous winking. 'Nictitate' and the older verb…
- Negative-strand RNA virus Also known as an antisense-strand RNA virus, a virus whose genetic information consists of a single strand of…
- Medullary cystic kidney disease, recessive Ssive type: A childhood genetic kidney disease in which there is progressive symmetrical destruction of the…