Category: T

Periodically rising and falling, increasing and decreasing.  

Gentle stimulation of a sensitive surface and its reflex effect, such as involuntary laughter.  

Peculiar sensation caused by titillation or touching, especially in certain areas of the body, resulting in reflex muscular movements, laughter, or other forms of emotional expression.  

The spotted-fever group (SFG) of tick-borne rickettsioses. Included are infections caused by the pathogenic organism Rickettsia rickettsii, which causes Rocky Mountain spotted fever. There are six other pathogenic SFG rickettsial species, five of which (R. conorii, R. sibirica, R. japonica, R. australis, and R. africae ) are most likely to be transmitted by a tick…

Spasmodic torticollis in which the head and neck are forcibly rotated or turned from one side to the other.  

Adduction of either the stimulated leg or the opposite one when the tibia is percussed on the inner side.  

A bulging of the lower legs in which the convexity is inward.  

That which has an affinity for or stimulates the thyroid gland.  

Thyroid hormone producing. The term is usually used to denote cells or adenomas in the pituitary gland that secrete thyroid stimulating hormone.  

A disease due to increased activity of the thyroid gland, marked by cardiac enlargement, atrial fibrillation, and high-output heart failure.