N = 50 (about 1/2 of sample) Foreign-born and US Natives Boston (ages 18-30, M = 21.80, 65% female, 50% foreign born) Subjective Stress and Scales. (available in 4 languages): Perceived Stress In the last month, how often have you felt difficulties were piling up so high.
Asterixis is a tremor or movement disorder characterized by movement of hands and wrists that resembles flapping of wings. There is arrhythmic flexion movements of the hands with outstretched arms and dorsiflexion of the wrists. This tremor experienced is involuntary and cannot be controlled by the individual.
thoracentesis. surgical puncture and drainage of the thoracic cavity; it may be done as an aid to the diagnosis of inflammatory or neoplastic diseases of the lung or pleura, or it may be used as a therapeutic measure to remove accumulations of fluid from the thoracic cavity. Called also pleurocentesis.