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A laxative made from the bark of a tropical tree. Cascara is a type of stimulant laxative medication that is occasionally employed when there is a need for fast-acting relief. However, it is currently infrequently utilized. A laxative crafted from the bark of a shrub native to North America.  

The bones by which the lower arm is connected to the hand. The eight bones of the wrist. The carpus articulates with the metacarpals I distally and with the humerus and radius proximally. The Latin term for the wrist, composed of eight small bones firmly joined together with ligaments, but capable of a certain amount…

One of the joints’ between the carpals and metacarpals.  

The action of pulling at the bedclothes, a sign of delirium in typhoid and other fevers. Plucking at the bedclothes by a delirious patient. This is often a sign of extreme exhaustion and may be the prelude to death.  

An operation to relieve the compression of the median nerve.  

The eight bones which make up the carpus or wrist. Osseous structures of the wrist, including the hemad, pisiform, triquetral, lunate, trapezium, trapezoid, capitate, and scaphoid bones. One of the eight wrist bones, which are aligned in two rows. The proximal row contains (from the thumb to the little finger) the scaphoid, lunate, triquetral, and…

An expanded part attached to the chrotid artery, which monitors blood pressure in the skull. A pocket in the wall of the carotid artery, at its division in the neck, containing receptors that monitor blood pressure. When blood pressure is raised, impulses travel from the receptors to the vasomotor center in the brain, which initiates…

Tissue in the carotid sinus which is concerned with cardiovascular reflexes. A small mass of tissue in the carotid sinus containing chemoreceptors that monitor levels of oxygen, carbon dioxide, and hydrogen ions in the blood. If the oxygen level falls, the chemoreceptors send impulses to the cardiac and respiratory centers in the brain, which promote…

The formation of a blood clot in the carotid artery.  

An excessive amount of carotene in the blood, usually as a result of eating too many carrots or tomatoes, which gives the skin a yellow colour. Carotenaemia is a harmless condition that occurs when blood levels of carotene, an orange pigment found in certain vegetables, become very high due to excessive consumption of these foods.…