Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

The eyelids.  

The act of feeling or touching with light finger pressure. Technique of examination in which the examiner feels the firmness, texture, size, shape, or location of body parts. Using the fingers to touch or press on the body surface to detect masses, enlargement, edema, or tenderness. The process of examining part of the body by…

Rehabilitation designed to enhance and prolong functioning ability. Part of a broad palliative care program, palliation.  

To reduce pain. The alleviation of some aspects of a disease, e.g., the reduction of the pain and suffering accompanying an illness.  

A condition of experiencing prolonged visual afterimages.  

The science that deals with the life of past geological periods.  

The study of plant life of the geologic past.  

A technique of studying memory involving the presentation of pairs of words, pictures, or phrases, paired associate method.  

A procedure in which subjects learn to provide particular response terms to various stimulus items, paired associate learning.  

Learning pairs of terms. Subjects are required to respond with the second member of the pair of terms when presented with the first term of the pair.