face-to-face interaction
face-to-face interaction The process in which co-present individuals influence each other's actions; or, as it is defined by Erving
Goffman (in
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, 1959), ‘the reciprocal influence of individuals upon one another's actions when in one another's immediate physical presence’.
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Spleen May Help Heart Recover From Disease; Low-profile organ plays a big role in immune response, study finds.(Report)
News Wire article from: Consumer Health News (English); 7/30/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...fine without their spleens. Traumatic injuries...surgery to remove the spleen. And surgeons remove spleens from people with some...to see if having a spleen helped the mice recover...veterans who'd had their spleens removed suggested they...
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Respecting the spleen.(Children in Hospitals)(Case study)
Newspaper article from: Pediatrics for Parents; 5/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...pediatrics that we pay much attention to the spleen. It is one of those mysterious organs...examined Amber, her doctor noticed her spleen to be quite enlarged. Ordinarily, it is difficult to feel the spleen when you examine someone's abdomen...
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Intrapancreatic accessory spleen diagnosed by technetium-99m heat-damaged red blood cell SPECT
Magazine article from: The Journal of Nuclear Medicine; 3/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...site of an accessory spleen is the splenic hilum, but accessory spleens have been found in...17%) accessory spleens were found in the...of the accessory spleen. In daily clinical...Some accessory spleens, however, are located...The accessory spleen in this patient was...
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Role of spleen in integrated control of splanchnic vascular tone: physiology and pathophysiology.(Report)
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology; 1/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; Introduction Historically, the spleen has been viewed as an important organ...for survival, the significance of the spleen in cardiovascular regulation has been...laboratory has examined the role of the spleen as a key regulator of body fluid homeostasis...
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Anguishing Over a Spleen
Magazine article from: The American Surgeon; 6/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...might direct diagnostic attention to the spleen. Therefore, the possibility of idiopathic...might be used to diagnose "wandering spleen." This condition makes the organ subject...hypersplenism who was found to have torsion of the spleen. Case Report A 27-YEAR-OLD man presented...
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Spontaneous rupture of the spleen: A case report and review of the literature.(Case Report)(Case study)
Magazine article from: Saudi Journal of Gastroenterology; 9/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Damoun. Safarpor Atraumatic rupture of the spleen is an uncommon but important clinical...Various aspects of atraumatic rupture of the spleen including those of pathologic and spontaneous...reviewed. Primary angiosarcoma of the spleen is a very rare neoplasm with disastrous...
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Spleen involvement in Hodgkin lymphoma can be assessed by spleen size.
Newspaper article from: Biotech Week; 9/10/2003; 700+ words
; ...splenic weight. In 171 of 376 patients spleen involvement was found," the researchers stated. "Average weight of the spleens was 258 g ([+ or -]257) ranging...to be independently prognostic for spleen involvement," the researchers stated...
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Spontaneous rupture of the malarial spleen.(Review Article)
Magazine article from: Saudi Journal of Gastroenterology; 10/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Spontaneous rupture of the spleen is a well-described...Ruptures of malarial spleens do heal and attempts...recurrent bleeding. The spleen plays an important role...found in chronic malarial spleens), an increased risk of minor stress to the spleen ( e.g ., vomiting...
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A novel, simple method of functional spleen volume calculation by liver-spleen scan
Magazine article from: The Journal of Nuclear Medicine; 10/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; Spleen enlargement is commonly associated with portal hypertension...cause thrombocytopenia. Thus, accurate assessment of spleen size may be helpful in the clinical evaluation. Spleen length is not a precise estimate of spleen size because...
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New Connections Found Between Spleen and Brain
Transcript from: NPR Talk of the Nation Science Friday; 7/25/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...2008 New Connections Found Between Spleen and Brain Host: IRA FLATOW Time 2...in plants. But first, what's your spleen good for anyway? Do you know that? Do you know what happens in your spleen? There is the expression, venting...
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spleen
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body
spleen The spleen was linked in past centuries to a variety of emotions , characteristics...pleasant fellow’ with ‘so much Wit and Mirth and Spleen’, whilst less positively a ‘touch of the spleen...
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Spleen, The
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Spleen, The, 1. a poem by Anne Finch, countess of Winchilsea (1709); 2. a poem by M. Green (1737).
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Spleen
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
Spleen. Poem by Verlaine set for v. and pf. by Debussy, 1887–8, as No.6 of Ariettes oubliées and by Fauré, 1889, as No.3 of his Op.51.
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Splenectomy
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, 3rd ed.
...Splenectomy is the surgical removal of the spleen, which is an organ that is part of the lymphatic system. The spleen is a dark-purple, bean-shaped organ...bottom of the rib cage. In adults, the spleen is about 4.8 × 2.8 ×...
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Hypersplenism
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, 3rd ed.
...blood cells in the liver and spleen after injection of a radioactive...and indicates areas where the spleen is holding on to large numbers...destroying them. Enlarged spleens are diagnosed using a combination...including palpation of the spleen, if possible, and diagnostic...
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