... com-
petent medical professional. Furthermore, the reader should consult his or her medical, health, or other competent profes-
sional before adopting any of the suggestions in the book or drawing ... after.
MASSAGE THERAPY, BIOFEEDBACK, MEDITATION, and
other methods also reduce the experience of pain.
See also
INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE.
anal intercourse The insertion of the pe...
... Arbuckle
was accused of rape and manslaughter. The scandal rocked
Hollywood and destroyed Arbuckle’s career, despite the fact
that (after three trials) Arbuckle was acquitted of all charges.
The audience ... 25
years in such plays as The Affairs of Anatol, Peter Ibbetson, The
Jest, and Richard III. He was considered one of the great
Hamlets, and he even played t...
... computer,
the endocrine glands and the other systems of the
body work together. They sense and respond to the
numerous minor and major changes in the per-
son’s daily environment and the resulting ... disease 7
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ENDOCRINE DISEASES
AND DISORDERS
xxii The Encyclopedia of Endocrine Diseases and Disorders
which is known as am...
...
become the single most popular animated program of the decade:
The Simpsons, which matured into a megahit for the network. The
success of The Simpsons marked the return of animated cartoons ... Series. The book was born
out of the dream that there be a major reference on animated
cartoons. This volume became the first to document hundreds of
cartoon...
... between
the fused bones of the sacrum and the coccyx,
although there is a disc that separates these two
structures from each other, and a disc also between
the sacrum and the last vertebra of the ... top two support the
skull.
ã Thoracic. The next 12 bones form the back of
the chest and are the attachment points for the
ribs.
ã Lumbar. The ve bones of...
... degenerative
disease of the brain and the leading cause of
SENIL-
ITY in the United States. About 4 million Americans
have Alzheimer’s disease, roughly 10 percent of the
U.S. population over the age of 65 and ... larynx, hair
growth, and muscular development. Testosterone
maintains the prostate gland, seminal vesicles, and
sperm production of the testes.
The...
... x-axis is the
percentage of items and the y-axis is the
percentage of total annual dollar usage. The
graph on the right shows that the first 20% of
the items represent about 80% of the annual ... potential, which is the total number of unit sales that we expect to sell over the life of the
product. This is the sum of the demand during the product...
... screen debut), who was then starring in the Lon-
don production of Oklahoma!. On the second day of filming,
Keel broke his ankle and was put on the sidelines for nearly
three months.
Veteran character ... rank among the handful of
western stars who either worked exclusively in the genre or
made their biggest contribution to the cinema in the “West-
ern’s broad confines....
... research on alternative medicine.
Congress has established the National Center for
the Study of Complementary and Alternative Med-
icine under the National Institutes of Health, and
the amount and quality ... unrealistic, or gullible.
Regardless of the reason, lack of communication
about alternative medicine is yet another obstacle
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