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.
trauma in Medicine. trauma trauÂ·ma (trÃ´'mÉ, trou'-) n. pl. trauÂ·mas or trauÂ·maÂ·ta (-mÉ-tÉ) A serious bodily injury or shock, as from violence or an accident. An emotional wound or shock that creates substantial lasting damage to one's psychological development, often leading to neurosis.