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  2. Phren - Wikipedia

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    Phren, however, is not exclusively applied to humans. In Empedocles' system, Phren is a general psychological agent to which moral blame and praise can be extended, [4] that darts through the universe as effluences, steers and controls the cosmos in the process and is the measure of what is harmonious and what is fit to exist. [5]

  3. List of eponymous medical signs - Wikipedia

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    Sign Name Specialty Associated conditions External link (if no internal link) Descriptor Aaron's sign: Charles Dettie Aaron: surgery: appendicitis: epigastric pain with pressure on McBurney's point Abadie's sign: Jean Marie Charles Abadie: endocrinology: Graves' disease: levator palpebrae superioris spasm Abadie's symptom: Joseph Louis Irenée ...

  4. Prehn's sign - Wikipedia

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    According to Prehn's sign, the physical lifting of the testicles relieves the pain of epididymitis but not pain caused by testicular torsion. [ 4 ] Negative Prehn's sign indicates no pain relief with lifting the affected testicle, which points towards testicular torsion which is a surgical emergency and must be relieved within 6 hours.

  5. Earth tone - Wikipedia

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    Earth tone is a term used to describe a palette of colors that are similar to natural materials and landscapes. These colors are inspired by the earth's natural hues, including browns, greens, grays, and other warm and muted shades.

  6. Sign (semiotics) - Wikipedia

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    Even when a sign represents by a resemblance or factual connection independent of interpretation, the sign is a sign only insofar as it is at least potentially interpretable by a mind and insofar as the sign is a determination of a mind or at least a quasi-mind, that functions as if it were a mind, for example in crystals and the work of bees ...

  7. Social change - Wikipedia

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    Social change may not refer to the notion of social progress or sociocultural evolution, the philosophical idea that society moves forward by evolutionary means.It may refer to a paradigmatic change in the socio-economic structure, for instance the transition from feudalism to capitalism, or hypothetical future transition to some form of post-capitalism.

  8. Color psychology - Wikipedia

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    A store sign painted mainly red on a street in Bangkok to attract attention from passers-by. Color is used as a means to attract consumer attention to a product that then influences buying behavior. [59] Consumers use color to identify for known brands or search for new alternatives. Variety seekers look for non-typical colors when selecting ...

  9. Color in Chinese culture - Wikipedia

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    Traditionally, the standard colors in Chinese culture are black, red, indigo (青; qīng), [2] white, and yellow.Respectively, these correspond to water, fire, wood, metal, and earth, which comprise the 'five elements' of traditional Chinese metaphysics. [3]