Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

A sensation in one area from a stimulus applied to another part. A strange condition in which the senses become intermingled. People see numbers in color or experience words as tastes. Almost any two senses can be involved. The most common fusion is of the visual and the auditory senses; for example, people see colors…

Primitive movements that dominate reflex and voluntary effort when spasticity is present following a cerebrovascular accident. They interfere with coordinated voluntary movements such as eating, dressing, and walking. Flexion synergy patterns include scapular retraction, shoulder abduction and external rotation, elbow flexion, forearm supination, and wrist and finger flexion in the upper extremity; and hip flexion,…

The association and correlation of the activity of synergetic muscle groups.  

Exhibiting cooperative action, said of certain muscles; working together.  

An encephalocele with adhesions to adjacent structures.  

The study of organisms in relationship to their environment in group form.  

The presence of four interrelated atherosclerotic risk factors: insulin resistance, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and obesity. A term that was occasionally employed to refer to metabolic syndrome during its initial identification in the 1960s. The phrase is employed to categorize two kinds of issues related to the cardiovascular system. The first type, also known as cardiac syndrome…