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  1. Jan 2022
  2. Dec 2021
    1. keto

      The ketogenic diet is a high-fat, adequate-protein, low-carbohydrate diet that in medicine is used mainly to treat hard-to-control epilepsy in children. The diet forces the body to burn fats rather than carbohydrates

    1. contraction

      a. A word, as won't from will not, or phrase, as o'clock from of the clock, formed by omitting or combining some of the sounds of a longer phrase.

  3. Nov 2021
    1. uptake

      a process of taking up or using up or consuming; "they developed paper napkins with a greater uptake of liquids"

      the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)

    1. homeostasis

      A state of equilibrium, as in an organism or cell, maintained by self-regulating processes:

      equilibrium = 1. A condition in which all acting influences are canceled by others, resulting in a stable, balanced, or unchanging system.

    1. presbyopia

      Inability of the eye to focus sharply on nearby objects, resulting from loss of elasticity of the crystalline lens with advancing age.

    2. astigmatism

      A visual defect in which the unequal curvature of one or more refractive surfaces of the eye, usually the cornea, prevents light rays from focusing clearly at one point on the retina, resulting in blurred vision.

    3. hypermetropia

      An abnormal condition of the eye in which vision is better for distant objects than for near objects. It results from the eyeball being too short from front to back, causing images to be focused behind the retina.

    4. refraction
      1. The deflection of a wave, such as a light or sound wave, when it passes obliquely from one medium into another having a different index of refraction.
    5. vermiform appendix

      A narrow, tubelike sac in some mammals, including humans, that projects from the cecum of the large intestine. Also called vermiform process.

    6. scaffolding
      1. A temporary platform, either supported from below or suspended from above, on which workers sit or stand when performing tasks at heights above the ground.