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A harmonious blend of occupational, familial, social, and leisure pursuits. In athletics, a practice or training session.  

A series of conditioning exercises that an injured worker performs in a rehabilitation program. These are designed to simulate the functional tasks encountered on the job to which the individual will return.  

The processes involved in completing a job, including such functions as the organization of human or other resources; the design of tasks; the development of procedures (and their implementation), followed by feedback, oversight, and quality improvement.  

A temporary, improvised solution to a problem that may relieve the obstacle but circumvents rather than repairs it.  

A form of aphasia in which sounds and words are heard but linguistic comprehension is absent. The inability to comprehend spoken words, despite being able to hear sounds, due to a disorder in the auditory center.  

A rare congenital disorder in which infants are born with wiry or unusually curly hair; sometimes associated with abnormal heart development; sometimes found only on hair that grows on nevi.  

Anhydrous lanolin, a fatty substance obtained from sheep’s wool; used as a base for ointments. It can produce contact dermatitis in susceptible persons.  

A low-growing, hardy perennial herb (Galium odoratum or Asperula odorata) used in alternative medicine to treat nervousness, insomnia, and cardiac irregularity. Liver damage has been reported in some patients after long-term use. A type of sweet herbaceous plant, commonly known as “Sweet Woodruff,” is a perennial herb that thrives in wooded areas throughout Europe. This…

Ultraviolet rays; used to detect fluorescent materials in the skin and hair in certain disease states such as tinea capitis. The terms Wood’s light and Wood’s lamp have become synonymous with Wood’s rays, even though these are misnomers.