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.
Definition of effector. 1  1 : a bodily organ (as a gland or muscle) that becomes active in response to stimulation. 2  2 : a molecule (as an inducer or a corepressor) that activates, controls, or inactivates a process or action (as protein synthesis)