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Exfoliation methods used in Canada, 2011. Shown: top right, a bath sponge made of plastic mesh; lower right, a brush with a pumice stone on one side and a natural bristle brush on the other side, for foot exfoliation; lower left, a mud mask package for facial exfoliation; top left, a jar of perfumed body scrub to be used while bathing.
Medical slang is the use of acronyms and informal terminology to describe patients, other healthcare personnel and medical concepts. Some terms are pejorative. In English, medical slang has entered popular culture via television hospital and forensic science dramas such as ER, House M.D., NCIS, Scrubs, and Grey's Anatomy, and through fiction, in books such as The House of God by Samuel Shem ...
A scrub top Scrub trousers Scrubs worn in surgery are almost always colored solid light grey, light green, light blue or a light green-blue shade. Green scrubs are commonly chosen because green is the opposite of red on the color wheel, which helps doctors avoid visual fatigue and desensitization to the red and pink hues of blood and organs ...
Scrub(s) may refer to: Scrub, low shrub and grass characteristic of scrubland; Scrubs (clothing), worn by medical staff; Scrubs, an American television program; Scrubs (occupation), also called "scrub tech," "scrub nurse," or "surgical technologist" Wormwood Scrubs, also known as "The Scrubs", an area in west London
Exfoliation (cosmetology), a cosmetic technique that aims to remove dead skin from the body and face; Exfoliation (geology), a process resulting in parallel fractures in the surface of rock; Exfoliation corrosion (metallurgy), a severe type of intergranular corrosion; Exfoliation (chemistry), the complete separation of the layers of a material
A slang dictionary is a reference book containing an alphabetical list of slang, which is vernacular vocabulary not generally acceptable in formal usage, usually including information given for each word, including meaning, pronunciation, and etymology.
Woman on an Israeli kibbutz using a washboard to do laundry. A washboard or a scrubbing-board [1] is a tool designed for hand washing clothing. With mechanized cleaning of clothing becoming more common by the end of the 20th century, the washboard has become better known for its secondary use as a musical instrument.
Shower gel (also called body wash) is a specialized liquid product used for cleaning the body during showers. Not to be confused with liquid soaps, shower gels, in fact, do not contain saponified oil. Instead, it uses synthetic detergents derived from either petroleum or plant sources.