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A species occurring in Southeast Asia and largely responsible for lymphangitis and elephantiasis in that region. It closely resembles W. bancrofti.  

A parasitic worm that is the causative agent of elephantiasis. Adults of the species live in human lymph nodes and ducts. Females give birth to sheathed microfilariae, which remain in internal organs during the day hut at night are in circulating blood, where they are sucked up by night-biting mosquitoes, in which they continue their…

A formal contract or plan established by a health care provider and a patient, specifying the manner in which certain forms of care will be delivered. Written treatment agreements are used most often in managing prescriptions for narcotic pain relievers. In that setting they are sometimes referred to colloquially as drug contracts.  

A flexible script that patients may use to guide their own outpatient therapy when they experience deterioration in a chronic health care condition.  

Writing a journal or diary to explore and record one’s feelings and thus to make progress toward desired psychological goals.  

A component of an upper-extremity prosthesis that attaches the terminal device to the forearm section and provides for pronation or supination.  

Dynamic splint used for functional grasp by individuals with C6 tetraplegia.  

An orthotic that uses the muscles of the wrist, especially the extensor muscles, to drive the fingers together into a grasping motion. It can be used by people with paralysis of the hand to improve the ability to hold on to and release objects.  

A ganglion of the superficial cardiac plexus, between the aortic arch and the pulmonary artery. Also called Wrisberg’s cardiac ganglion.