Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

A muscle which squeezes an organ or which makes an organ contract. Something that binds or restricts a part.  

Because of a person’s constitution.  

Reluctant to accept new things. (Of a treatment) designed to help relieve symptoms or preserve health with a minimum of medical intervention or risk. To the use of a simple rather than a radical method of medical or surgical therapy.  

A form which a patient signs to show that he or she agrees to have a particular operation. A legal document, dated and signed by a patient and his or her health care provider, designating that the patient has been advised about the care about to be received. The document should specify the nature of…

A form of management which aims to get everyone to agree on what actions should be taken.  

In a deliberate and knowing way.  

Blood relationship between people. A formal term describing the relationship of blood relatives who share a common genetic inheritance and as kin have certain legal inheritance rights in the absence of a will. Relationship by common ancestry (bloodline); blood relationship. Relationship by blood; the sharing of a common ancestor within a few generations.  

A condition in which excessive production of the hormone aldosterone causes fluid retention and high blood pressure. Disorder of the cortex of the adrenal gland (most often due to a benign tumor, rarely to another cause) in which excess secretion of aldosterone leads to disturbances in salt-water balance and symptoms of weakness, convulsions, muscular cramps…