Category: N

The practice of harnessing expired plant or animal matter as a means of sustenance.  

A mycological organism that effectively eradicates organic tissues by traversing through them, thereby consistently occupying expired substrates.  

A blend of remedial concoctions, contingent on the patient’s specific exigencies, and harnessing the innate power of the body to cure, is what we refer to as X. This method targets the root cause of maladies by implementing innocuous medicines, with the purpose of endowing optimal reinforcement to the body’s immune system.  

A stimulus that is damaging or potentially damaging. Most stimuli are defined by their type of energy (for instance, mechanical, thermal, or chemical). However a noxious stimulus is qualified by its capacity to produce an injury, regardless of the form of energy. Noxious stimuli are also called nocuous.  

One of the two types of neurons in the central nervous system that receive and transmit injury-related signals. Normally nociceptor-specific neurons are activated only by nociceptors and therefore by painful or potentially painful stimuli. During persistent pain states, however, they can also be activated by less intense stimuli. Though distributed throughout the central nervous system,…

Nucleus in the brain stem that receives sensory information from the lower body.  

Nucleus in the brain stem that receives sensory information from the upper body.  

Pain in response to a damaging or potentially damaging stimulus. Pain produced by the normal activation of nociceptors, either by an injury or by a potentially damaging stimulus. It is the normal response of the organism to an injury, and an alarm signal that warns of potential or actual harm.  

Large neurotransmitter molecule that is often long lasting.  

The general physiological response pattern in Selye’s model that occurs to a broad band of stressful stimuli.