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.
Medical Definition of SERRATUS. : any of three muscles of the thorax that have complex origins but arise chiefly from the ribs or vertebrae: a: serratus anterior b: serratus posterior inferior c: serratus posterior superior.5 ENTRIES FOUND:1  serratus (noun). 2  serratus anterior (noun). 3  serratus magnus (noun).edical Definition of SERRATUS. : any of three muscles of the thorax that have complex origins but arise chiefly from the ribs or vertebrae: a: serratus anterior b: serratus posterior inferior c: serratus posterior superior. 5 ENTRIES FOUND: 1  serratus (noun).