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  • Shiatsu

    Finger pressure message used to relieve muscular tension. A form of healing massage in which the hands are used to apply pressure at acupuncture points on the body in order to stimulate and redistribute energy. Japanese method of massage that incorporates the technique of acupressure. Japanese massage therapy. Shiatsu, which literally means “finger pressure,” is…

  • Sheltered workshop

    A workshop where the mentally retarded or other handicapped persons can become involved in constructive and productive work in the community.  

  • Shell temperature

    The temperature of the extremities and surface of the body, core temperature.  

  • Shels

    An acronym for significant human exposure levels.  

  • Sharers

    In regard to sexual activity, swingers who maintain their marriages by sharing their adultery by reciprocating sex acts.  

  • Shape constancy

    The tendency to perceive the shape of objects as more or less the same despite the fact that the retinal image of these objects changes in shape as a person changes the angle orientation from which they are viewed, size constancy.  

  • Shaft

    The long, slender body of the penis. The long central section of a long bone. Main central section of the erect penis. The principal portion of any cylindrical body. The elongated and slim section of a long bone, also known as the diaphysis.  

  • Shadow area

    A dead spot in a communicating area where radio or telephone contact is difficult or impossible to achieve.  

  • Shadow

    In psychology the hidden and unconscious parts of the mind.  

  • S factors of intelligence

    Specific factors unique to a particular intellectual task, factor of intelligence.  

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