a circular band of voluntary or involuntary muscle that encircles and closes an orifice of the body or one of its hollow organs. [1570–80; < Late Latin < Greeksphinktḗr=sphing-,base ofsphíngeinto hold tight +-tēragent suffix] ...
The upper airway is an important site of infection, but immune memory in the human upper airway is poorly understood, with implications for COVID-19 and many other human diseases1,2,3,4. Here we demonstrate that nasal and nasopharyngeal swabs can be used to obtain insights into these challen...
Dictionary of Unfamiliar Words by Diagram Group Copyright © 2008 by Diagram Visual Information Limited ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend: Switch to new thesaurus Noun 1. muscle - one of the contractile organs of the body musculus contractile organ, contractor - a bodily organ that contra...
This might be because not everybody modulates in the same way their brain waves and it is necessary to search the best ones in order to manage an ERD/ERS-based system. However, the short period of time to conduct the experiment with patients made difficult the exhaustive searching for the ...
The upper motor neuron (UMN) is the motor system that is confined to the central nervous system (CNS) and is responsible for the initiation of voluntary movement, the maintenance of muscle tone for support of the body against gravity, and the regulation of posture to provide a stable backgro...
(both Ucritand Uburst). One-way ANOVA was used to test whether the swimming speeds at different TDG supersaturation levels were significantly different. Body length was also analyzed with one-way ANOVA considering it has a profound effect on swimming performance. Post hoc multiple comparisons were...
Combination 7 predominates over the rest of combinations (four out of seven) as all frequency bands normally involved in ERD and ERS are used. However, subjects P5, H2 and H3 achieved their best results discarding some bands. This might be because not everybody modulates in the same way thei...
(Alstermark and Isa2012). The axons of the dorsal root ganglion are the afferent sensory nerve fibers carrying information from the body to the brainstem and the cerebellum. The spindles provide information about the muscle length and the rate of muscle length change. Golgi tendon organs (GTOs...
Dictionary of Unfamiliar Words by Diagram Group Copyright © 2008 by Diagram Visual Information Limited ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend: Switch to new thesaurus Noun 1. muscle - one of the contractile organs of the body musculus contractile organ, contractor - a bodily organ that contra...
Acupuncture can help balance energy circulation in different body organs. Electroacupuncture (EA), or electrical acupoint stimulation, is used as a modality of treatment, wherein minimal electric current, like the human bioelectric current, is applied through a needle placed on certain points, called...