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OCD. Dermatophagia (from Ancient Greek δέρμα — lit.skin and φαγείαlit.eating) or dermatodaxia (from δήξις, lit.biting) [3] is a compulsion disorder of gnawing or biting one's own skin, most commonly at the fingers. This action can either be conscious or unconscious [4] and it is considered to be a type of pica.
291. ISBN. 978-1-250-09013-3. Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery is a 2014 memoir written by Henry Marsh and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. The book details the author's career as a neurosurgeon .
Anesthesia awareness. Awareness under anesthesia, also referred to as intraoperative awareness or accidental awareness during general anesthesia ( AAGA ), is a rare complication of general anesthesia where patients regain varying levels of consciousness during their surgical procedures. While anesthesia awareness is possible without resulting ...
[How to Stop Time left] the reader craving some of the sharp-edged black humor that made The Humans such a delight." [8] Los Angeles Times ' reviewer Chelsea Leu wrote, "Hendrich is a physical manifestation of Tom’s fears of attachment and vulnerability, though he’s more comic book villain than sensitively rendered character."
A week after the February class, the addict who was his ride to the meetings relapsed and was kicked out of Grateful Life — as was the staffer who hadn’t reported the relapse. Soon enough, the middle-aged addict with the coffee cup issue would be expelled, according to the administration, for “wasting our time and not being engaged or ...
Anesthesia. Postoperative nausea and vomiting ( PONV) is the phenomenon of nausea, vomiting, or retching experienced by a patient in the post-anesthesia care unit (PACU) or within 24 hours following a surgical procedure. PONV affects about 10% of the population undergoing general anaesthesia each year. PONV can be unpleasant and lead to a delay ...
0-312-01073-7. Not Without My Daughter is a biographical book by Betty Mahmoody detailing the escape of Betty and her daughter, Mahtob, from Betty's abusive husband in Iran. In 1977, Betty married Dr. Sayyed "Moody" Bozorg Mahmoody. In 1984, when their daughter was four years old, Betty reluctantly agreed to accompany her husband on a two week ...
Amy Sussman/Getty Images Sofía Vergara isn’t afraid to go under the knife. “I feel like I’m going to do every plastic surgery that I can do when I’m ready,” she told Allure in an ...