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Treatment of disease by dietary regulation.  

Provision of nutrition, usually intravenously or via a tube passed into the gastrointestinal tract of a patient unable to take or utilize normal nourishment.  

A rare disorder of movement and sensation in which sudden unexpected movements of a hand or foot occur and are felt by the patient experiencing them to be either involuntary or initiated by others.  

Having properties of both aliphatic (open-chain) and cyclic (closed-chain) compounds.  

Perceptual distortions of the size and/or shape of objects. It is often characterized by the hallucination that things are smaller than they really are and is sometimes experienced by patients suffering from migraine, infectious mononucleosis, or an overdose of hallucinogenic drugs.  

A jagged distortion in a digitally generated visual image, such as an image produced during image reconstruction in magnetic resonance imaging or Doppler ultrasonography. An example of aliasing is the wrap-around artifact seen on magnetic resonance images when a portion of the body extends beyond the imaged field of view.  

An instrument for measuring the degree of sensitivity to pain.  

Sexual satisfaction derived by experiencing pain or by inflicting pain on others.  

Causing painful contraction of muscles, particularly pain during peristalsis.  

A polysaccharide film that coats the bacterial surface of colonies of Pseudomonas aeruginosa.. It prevents phagocytic cells from ingesting the bacteria.