Glossary
Relaxation: It’s a state of mind and body free from any anxiety or skeletal or muscular pressure.Contractures: It’s a condition of shortening of muscular tendons leading to deformity of joints.
Hyperemia: An excess of blood in the vessels supplying to an organ.
Perfusion: It is the process of delivery of oxygenated blood to a capillary bed in tissue.
Homeostasis: Maintenance of stable equilibrium within the body with all physiological processes in sync is called homeostasis.
C fibers: C fibers are nerve fibers that react to thermal, or mechanical stimuli.
Nocioceptor: A nociceptor is a sensory nerve cell sends signals to the spinal cord and brain and responds to a particular stimuli in form of pain.
Scalds: They result from partial thickness burns, when dermal layer of skin is lost.
