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  2. Basal body temperature - Wikipedia

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    Basal body temperature (BBT or BTP) is the lowest body temperature attained during rest (usually during sleep). It is usually estimated by a temperature measurement immediately after awakening and before any physical activity has been undertaken. This will lead to a somewhat higher value than the true BBT. In women, ovulation causes a sustained ...

  3. Sleep - Wikipedia

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    During this phase, body temperature and heart rate fall, and the brain uses less energy. [10] REM sleep, also known as paradoxical sleep, represents a smaller portion of total sleep time. It is the main occasion for dreams (or nightmares ), and is associated with desynchronized and fast brain waves, eye movements, loss of muscle tone, [ 18 ...

  4. Fibromyalgia - Wikipedia

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    In resistance exercise, participants apply a load to their body using weights, elastic band, body weight or other measures. Two meta-analyses on fibromyalgia have shown that resistance training can reduce anxiety and depression, [ 139 ] [ 153 ] one found that it decreases pain and disease severity [ 154 ] and one found that it improves quality ...

  5. Meningitis - Wikipedia

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    In adults, too, meningococcal meningitis has a lower mortality (3–7%) than pneumococcal disease. [ 3 ] In children there are several potential disabilities which may result from damage to the nervous system, including sensorineural hearing loss , epilepsy , learning and behavioral difficulties, as well as decreased intelligence . [ 2 ]

  6. Alzheimer's disease - Wikipedia

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    In such cases, the medical efficacy and ethics of continuing feeding is an important consideration of the caregivers and family members. [ 214 ] [ 215 ] The use of physical restraints is rarely indicated in any stage of the disease, although there are situations when they are necessary to prevent harm to the person with Alzheimer's disease or ...

  7. Paracetamol - Wikipedia

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    [56] [57] It appears that 0.2 °C decrease of the body temperature in children after a standard dose of paracetamol is of questionable value, particularly in emergency situations. [14] Based on this, some physicians advocate using higher doses that may decrease the temperature by as much as 0.7 °C. [ 17 ]

  8. Borderline personality disorder - Wikipedia

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    The first formal definition of borderline disorder is widely acknowledged to have been written by Adolph Stern in 1938. [219] [220] He described a group of patients who he felt to be on the borderline between neurosis and psychosis, who very often came from family backgrounds marked by trauma. He argued that such patients would often need more ...

  9. Peripheral neuropathy - Wikipedia

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    Peripheral neuropathy may be classified according to the number and distribution of nerves affected (mononeuropathy, mononeuritis multiplex, or polyneuropathy), the type of nerve fiber predominantly affected (motor, sensory, autonomic), or the process affecting the nerves; e.g., inflammation (), compression (compression neuropathy), chemotherapy (chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy).