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Lotion or liniment that relieves muscle or joint pains. Alcohol-based treatments rubbed into the skin to relieve pain or which produce reddening of the skin. A lotion that is rubbed onto the body for the treatment of sprains and strains. Embrocations are mixtures, usually of an oily nature, intended for external application in cases of…

A medicinal paste composed of powders, or other medical ingredients, incorporated with sweeteners to hide the taste, suitable for oral administration. A pharmaceutical preparation in which the drug is made up into a paste with syrup or honey. A medicinal substance mixed with honey or sugar to form a paste suitable for oral consumption.  

A test used to record the electrical activity of muscles. An electromyogram (EMG) is also called a myogram. An electrophysiological recording of muscle potentials that measures the amount and nature of muscle activity at the site from which the recording is taken. An electrodiagnostic assessment of the activity of skeletal muscles. A record of the…

Is a transthoracic interpretation of the electrical activity of the heart over time captured and externally recorded by skin electrodes. A technique that records the electrical activity in the heart. A device for recording the electrical activity that occurs during the heartbeat, electrocardiogram. An apparatus for measuring and recording the electrical impulses of the muscles…

A serine protease that also hydrolyses amides and esters. An enzyme secreted by neutrophils (white blood cells that engulf pathogens) which catalyzes the cleavage (breakdown) of specific proteins that function to provide elasticity to certain tissues. May be indirectly responsible for some autoimmune diseases, such as arthritis (which results from breakdown of cartilage tissue). Elastase…

Are signaling molecules made by oxygenation of arachidonic acid, a 20-carbon essential fatty acid, includes prostaglandins and related compounds. Compounds formed in the body from long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (eicosenoic acids, mainly arachidonic acid), formed by cyclooxygenase or lipoxygenase, including the prostaglandins, prostacyclins, thromboxanes, and leukotrienes, all of which act as local hormones and are…

Early growth response 1, a human gene.  

Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) proteins – Protein kinases are enzymes that transfer a phosphate group from a phosphate donor onto an acceptor amino acid in a substrate protein.