Insoluble fiber from tangerines and other foods can lower your risk of diverticular disease, a condition that causes pouches to form in your intestinal tract. When food gets stuck in these pouches, your intestines become inflamed, causing severe pain, a condition known as diverticulitis.
Medical Definition of Rigor. Rigor: A word with two different but related meanings in medicine: 1. A chill, usually with shivering, as at the onset of high fever and chills. 2. Rigidity, as in rigor mortis, the rigidity of a body after death. The alternate spelling rigour is chiefly British.
A general term for any factor that increases a personâs mental or physical stress; virtually all stressors can be described as related to environment (e.g., inadequate housing) or personal (e.g., health related, sexual, social or related to work).tressor. A stimulus or event that provokes a stress response in an organism. Stressors can be categorized as acute or chronic, and as external or internal to the organism. Mentioned in: General Adaptation Syndrome.