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.
brainstorm - By the 1890s, it was a medical term for mental explosion. canities - The medical term for the graying or whitening of hair. repercussion - First a medical term for repressing an infection.. tension - Originally a medical term for the condition of being physically strained.