Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

The state of being happy, stimulated and excited. A state of cheerful excitement and enthusiasm. Marked elation of mood is a characteristic of mania or hypomania. Joyful emotion. It is pathological when out of accord with the patient’s actual circumstanes.  

Fibre which can expand easily and is found in elastic cartilage, the skin and the walls of arteries and the lungs.  

Flexible cartilage, e.g. in the ear and epiglottis. A type of cartilage in which elastic fibers are distributed in the matrix. It is yellowish in color and is found in the external ear. Cartilage that contains elastin fibers in the matrix. Found in the epiglottis, external ear, and auditory tube, it strengthens these and maintains…

A stretchy bandage used to support a weak joint or for the treatment of a varicose vein. A bandage that can be stretched to exert continuous pressure. It usually is made of special weaves or of material containing rubber and is used on swollen extremities or joints, on the chest in empyema, on fractured ribs,…

Which can be stretched and compressed and return to its former shape. Having the ability to resume the original shape once the force that changed that shape is removed. Capable of being stretched and then returning to its original state.  

The act of sending out something with force.  

Referring to ejaculation. Pertaining to the emission of semen from the male urethra.  

To send out semen from the penis. Sperm-containing fluid (semen) emitted during ejaculation. The fluid volume of each ejaculation is usually between 2 and 5 milliliters, and it contains 50,000,000 to 150,000,000 spermatozoa. The semen released during ejaculation. Usually refers to the male sexual orgasm in which the seminal fluid is discharged.  

Heart disease caused by a septal defect between the ventricles, with pulmonary hypertension [Described 1897. After Victor Eisenmenger (1864-1932), German physician.] A condition in which the subject suffers from a defect in one of the dividing walls (septum) of the HEART and this is accompanied by pulmonary hypertension. The defect allows blood low in oxygen…

The recall of extremely clear pictures in the mind.