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  2. 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.

  3. 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 ]

  4. Social media - Wikipedia

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    Social media allows for mass cultural exchange and intercultural communication, despite different ways of communicating in various cultures. [226] Social media has affected the way youth communicate, by introducing new forms of language. [227] Novel acronyms save time, as illustrated by "LOL", which is the ubiquitous shortcut for "laugh out loud".

  5. History of biotechnology - Wikipedia

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    Each new scientific advance became a media event designed to capture public support, and by the 1980s, biotechnology grew into a promising real industry. In 1988, only five proteins from genetically engineered cells had been approved as drugs by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA), but this number would skyrocket to over 125 by ...

  6. Truth Social - Wikipedia

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    Truth Social (stylized as TRUTH) is an alt-tech [7] social media platform owned by Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), an American media and technology company majority-owned by U.S. president Donald Trump. [8] It has been called a "Twitter clone" that competes with Parler, Gab, and Mastodon in trying to provide an alternative to Twitter and ...

  7. Problematic social media use - Wikipedia

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    Experts from many different fields have conducted research and held debates about how using social media affects mental health.Research suggests that mental health issues arising from social media use affect women more than men and vary according to the particular social media platform used, although it does affect every age and gender demographic in different ways.

  8. Hoover's sign (leg paresis) - Wikipedia

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    Hoover’s sign of leg paresis is one of two signs named for Charles Franklin Hoover. [1] It is a maneuver aimed to separate organic from non-organic paresis of the leg. [ 2 ] The sign relies on the principle of synergistic contraction .

  9. Negentropy - Wikipedia

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    In information theory and statistics, negentropy is used as a measure of distance to normality. [4] [5] [6] Out of all distributions with a given mean and variance, the normal or Gaussian distribution is the one with the highest entropy.