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Regulators Regulators
REGULATORS REGULATORS were vigilantes. The term was used by the 5,000 to 6,000 Regulators in the Carolinas between 1767 and 1771, adopted from an earlier, short-lived London police auxiliary. Most American regulators sought to protect their communities from outlaws and tyrannical public... Read more
Pacemakers Pacemakers
Pacemaker The pacemaker is an electronic biomedical device that can regulate the human heartbeat when its natural regulating mechanisms break down. It is a small box surgically implanted in the chest cavity and has electrodes that are in direct contact with the heart. First... Read more
Integumentary System Integumentary System
Integumentary system The human integumentary system is made up of the skin, hair, nails, and associated glands. Its main function is to protect the body. It prevents excessive water loss, keeps out microorganisms that could cause illness, and shields the underlying tissues from external... Read more
sumptuary laws sumptuary laws
sumptuary laws , regulations based on social, religious, or moral grounds directed against overindulgence of luxury in diet and drink and extravagance in dress and mode of living. Such laws existed in ancient Greece and Rome, and in Japan they were applied to the peasant and commercial classes until... Read more
holistic medicine holistic medicine
holistic medicine system of health care based on a concept of the "whole" person as one whose body, mind, spirit, and emotions are in balance with the environment. Stressing personal responsibility for health, a holistic approach may include conventional medicine and various nontraditional... Read more
Traditional Chinese medicine Traditional Chinese medicine
Traditional Chinese medicine Definition Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is based on a set of interventions designed to restore balance to human beings. The therapies usually considered under the heading of classic Chinese medicine include: acupunture and moxibustion dietary... Read more
controlling gene controlling gene
controlling gene A gene that is involved in turning on or off the transcription of structural genes. Two types of genetic element exist in this process: a regulator and a receptor element. A receptor element is one that can be inserted into a gene, making it a mutant, and can also exit from the gene... Read more
sphincter sphincter
sphincter A band of muscle encircling one of the body's ‘tubes’, and so able to alter the ‘bore’ by contracting/relaxing. In the alimentary tract there are sphincters at the exit from the stomach, between the small and large intestine, and at the anus; another regulates... Read more
shivering shivering
shivering A common experience; the explanation is a stimulus to rapid muscular contractions, set off from the temperature-regulating centre in the hypothalamus, in response to cooling of the skin and the blood. The contractions generate heat, helping to maintain deep body temperature despite... Read more
Exocytosis Exocytosis
Exocytosis Exocytosis is the cellular process in which intracellular vesiclesin the cytoplasmfuse with the plasma membrane and release or "secrete" their contents into the extracellular space. Exocytosis can be constitutive(occurring all the time) or regulated.... Read more

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