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Compress

Compress

Cloth (or another material) applied under pressure to an area of the skin and held in Place for a period of time. A compress can be any temperature (cold, luke arm, or hot) and it can be dry or wet.


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Re: Stomach bloating and weight gain

... in the morning but after lunch start to feel bad and sometimes by evening I am just so tired and full, I can't do anything. Someimes I put a warm compress on my stomach and it is better. I mostly have the pain in the lower left quardrant. My dr. said there is only colon there so now she has me ...

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by cthomas
Thu Oct 16, 2008 11:24 pm
 
Forum: Physiology
Topic: Stomach bloating and weight gain
Replies: 299
Views: 486668

movement of blod into veins

how does the diaphragm compress major veins while breathing?

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by fireblaze
Wed Jul 11, 2007 10:29 pm
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: movement of blod into veins
Replies: 1
Views: 563

The Fiber Disease

... create microcluster formations in water and other compounds. Hence, a plasma formation contains a very high intensity of torsion fields, ready to compress into geometric crystals at a moment’s notice. The astute reader should realize that there is another consequence to this earthquake model. ...

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by Nadas Moksha
Wed Dec 13, 2006 9:29 am
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: The Fiber Disease
Replies: 7403
Views: 749350

Morgellon's or ..........flies, or .......

... As a result, their movement – crawling – has evolved into a highly specialized form of locomotion which allows soft-bodied animals to crumple, compress and rotate body parts into confined three-dimensional structures such as tubes and branches. Trimmer is working with Tufts colleagues across ...

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by London
Fri Mar 10, 2006 7:02 am
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: Morgellon's or ..........flies, or .......
Replies: 172
Views: 38002

why are many people said that octopi is clever?

... atvantages in a given ecosystem. For example: thier skin color changing techniques can make them near invisible to the naked eye, thier ability to compress thier body size to fractions of thier normal size gives them plenty of places to hide/find food, thier long tenticals with thier suckers make ...

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by Super Grendel
Tue Jan 03, 2006 12:24 am
 
Forum: Zoology Discussion
Topic: why are many people said that octopi is clever?
Replies: 15
Views: 2348
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