Category: G

The factors in Antonovsky’s salutogenic model that reduce stress-induced pressure to move toward the entropic direction of the health continuum.  

The mouth, pharynx, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, liver, gallbladder, and pancreas, which work in concert to ingest and digest food.  

An essential polyunsaturated fatty acid found in some plant seed oils including evening primrose oil, black currant oil, and borage oil.  

Fat deposition characteristic of women, in whom fat tends to accumulate on the hips and thighs.  

The behaviors and attitudes that are socially accepted as either masculine or feminine.  

Steroid hormones that are produced by the adrenal glands in response to stimulation by adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) from the pituitary. These hormones, which can also be manufactured synthetically (prednisone, prednisolone, methylprednisolone, betamethasone, dexamethasone), serve both an immunosuppressive and an anti-inflammatory role in the treatment of MS exacerbations: they damage or destroy certain types of T-Iymphocytes…

A lesion appearing on magnetic resonance imagery (MRI), following injection of the chemical compound gadolinium, that reveals a breakdown in the blood-brain barrier. This breakdown of the blood-brain barrier indicates either a newly active lesion or the re-activation of an old one.  

Direction in which the hair grows from the scalp; also referred to as natural fall or natural falling position.  

Completes an electric circuit and carries the current safely away.  

Located in the back of the head; affects the scalp as far up as the top of the head.