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 STRUCTURE. 1. : something (as an anatomical part) arranged in a definite pattern of organization. 2. 3. : the aggregate of elements of an entity in their relationships to each other.ord Root of STRUCTURE. The Latin word struere, meaning â to build, â and its form structus give us the root struct. Words from the Latin struere have something to do with building. A struct ure is something that was built, such as a house.