This brace consists of a customized pelvic girdle and a metal structure that extends to the neck. This brace is not hidden by clothing. The CTLSO is used to treat curves high in the upper back, such as kyphosis (hunchback). The brace treatment of kyphosis in the upper back can often result in correction.
For other uses, see Sloughing (disambiguation). Sloughing (pronounced sluffing) in biology refers to the act of shedding or casting off dead tissue, such as cells of the endometrium, shed during menstruation, or the shedding of skin in amphibians. Skin sloughing is the process of shedding dead surface cells from the skin.
Cramming (education) A young boy does some last minute cramming while walking to school with his sister. In education, cramming (also known as mugging or swotting, from swot, akin to sweat, meaning to study with determination) is the practice of working intensively to absorb large volumes of informational material in short amounts of time.