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  2. Antimacassar - Wikipedia

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    An antimacassar / ˌ æ n t ɪ m ə ˈ k æ s ər / is a small cloth placed over the backs or arms of chairs, or the head or cushions of a sofa, to prevent soiling of the permanent fabric underneath. [1]

  3. Muscarinic antagonist - Wikipedia

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    Muscarinic antagonist effects and muscarinic agonist effects counterbalance each other for homeostasis. Certain muscarinic antagonists can be classified into either long-acting muscarinic receptor antagonists (LAMAs) or short-acting muscarinic receptor antagonists (SAMAs), depending on when maximum effect occurs and for how long the effect ...

  4. Muscimol - Wikipedia

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    Muscimol (also known as agarin or pantherine) is one of the principal psychoactive constituents of Amanita muscaria and related species of mushroom. Muscimol is a potent and selective orthosteric agonist for the GABA A receptor [3] and displays sedative-hypnotic, depressant and hallucinogenic [citation needed] psychoactivity.

  5. Paradoxical reaction - Wikipedia

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    A paradoxical reaction (or paradoxical effect) is an effect of a chemical substance, such as a medical drug, that is opposite to what would usually be expected. An example of a paradoxical reaction is pain caused by a pain relief medication .

  6. The Mandela effect: 10 examples that explain what it is and ...

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    "The Mandela Effect is a pervasive false memory where people are very confident about a memory they have that's incorrect," Bainbridge tells Yahoo. It's often associated with pop culture. In ...

  7. Ideomotor phenomenon - Wikipedia

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    A simple experiment to demonstrate the ideomotor effect is to allow a hand-held pendulum to hover over a sheet of paper. The paper has words such as "yes", "no", and "maybe" printed on it. Small movements in the hand, in response to questions, can cause the pendulum to move towards the words on the paper.

  8. Macassar oil - Wikipedia

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    A young man in Herne Bay, Kent, England, around 1903 to 1914, showing hair groomed with Macassar oil. Macassar oil is an oil that was originally compounded from Macassar ebony oil that was used primarily by Western European men throughout the 1800s and early 1900s as a hair conditioner to groom and style the hair.

  9. Social Security Fairness Act could restore benefits, but ...

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    Its effects extend to all employees of state, county, municipal and special districts in 26 states. Teachers in 13 of those states, including specific districts in Kentucky and Georgia, also feel ...