Acetylcholine receptors, of which muscarinic receptors are a subdivision, are widely distributed in both the central nervous system and the autonomic nervous system. The autonomic nervous system is anatomically distinct from the somatic nervous system. The autonomic nervous system controls various involuntary actions, such as heart rate, pupil dilation, sweating, salivation, urination and defecation, digestion, and so on. These actions are known as involuntary, that is to say that the conscious mind is unaware of these actions, or unable to influence them. It is the autonomic nervous system a ...

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Muscarinic acetylcholine receptor, Muscarinic acetylcholine receptor - Context, Muscarinic acetylcholine receptor - Physiology, Muscarinic acetylcholine receptor - The Form of Muscarinic Receptors, Muscarinic acetylcholine receptor - Variety of Receptor Forms, Muscarinic acetylcholine receptor - Receptor Subtype m1, Muscarinic acetylcholine receptor - m2, Muscarinic acetylcholine receptor - m3, Muscarinic acetylcholine receptor - m4, Muscarinic acetylcholine receptor - m5

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Fecal incontinence can have several causes: diarrhea pelvic floor dysfunction an extended period without defecation severe muscular strain in the abdominal area, particularly when giving birth damage to the anal sphincter muscles damage to the nerves of the anal sphincter muscles or the rectum loss of storage capacity in the rectum, e.g. due to surgery or a combination thereof. < ...

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Fecal incontinence, Fecal incontinence - Prevalence, Fecal incontinence - Causes, Fecal incontinence - Muscle damage, Fecal incontinence - Nerve damage, Fecal incontinence - Loss of storage capacity, Fecal incontinence - Diarrhea, Fecal incontinence - Pelvic floor dysfunction, Fecal incontinence - Diagnosis, Fecal incontinence - Treatment, Fecal incontinence - Dietary changes, Fecal incontinence - Medication, Fecal incontinence - Bowel training, Fecal incontinence - Surgery, Fecal incontinence - What to do about anal discomfort, Fecal incontinence - Emotional considerations, Fecal incontinence - Everyday practical tips, Fecal incontinence - Fecal incontinence in children, Fecal incontinence - Why children get constipated, Fecal incontinence - Reference

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By the mid to late 1980s, Allin was a heroin user, alcoholic, and generally abused all intoxicants given to him. He was poorly groomed and rarely cleaned himself. At this point, GG began eating laxatives before performances, as defecation was becoming a regular stage act for him. GG described himself as the last true Rock and Roller. By this he meant that rock and roll music itself had started as an embodiment of danger, anti-authoritarianism, rebelliousness, but had become largely taken over by corporations and business concerns. Allin's music and performances were thus meant t ...

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Dinacharya

In order to keep the tridoshas in a state of healthy equlibrium and digestion & metabolism (agni) in proper order, Ayurveda prescribes for each individual a specific daily routine ( dina – day & acharya – behaviour). The various stages to this daily routine, influenced by the specifics of your prakriti, that will enable you to make the most out of your life, are:

Arising

Since our biological clocks are attuned to the rising and setting of the sun, it is obviously better to awake at sunrise in perfect synchronisation to the natural clock. An ideal time to let the body cells soak in the strength of a tempered sun to be charged for the day. Drinking a glass of luke-warm water helps flush out all toxins accumulated overnight in the body.

Natural Urges

The last portion of the night being ruled by vata – involved in the process of elimination – dawn is the best time to eliminate the body's physical waste. Proper elimination also helping remove the kapha that naturally accumulates overnight. Defecation once or twice daily is the best. Preferably not immediately after a meal. But urination then is wise. Examine your eliminations each morning and if you notice any disturbance indicating poor digestion, go on a fast. It will allow the body rest to correct the system before disease sets in. Never suppress the natural physical urges as elimination, hunger, thirst, sleep, sneezing, yawning, vomiting, flatus and ejaculation, for it will lead to discomfort and even disease.

Cleanliness

Thorough washing of the limbs, face, mouth, eyes & nose purifies the bodies sense organs. Best done with a bath in clean water, it should accompany brushing of the teeth (should be repeated after every meal), scraping off a toxicated coating of ama from the tongue, occasional gargling of salt water with a pinch of turmeric to keep gums, mouth & throat healthy, proper cleaning of the nose and the ears and washing the eyes with warm water held in mouth for moments (saliva being very good for the eyes). Keep your hair trimmed, nails filed and wear clean clothes. Feel free to use perfumes in moderation and feel good.

Exercise

Either passive like massage or active like aerobics or both as in yoga postures, regular exercise increases the body's stamina and resistance to disease by facilitating the immune system, clearing all channels, promoting circulation & waste disposal, and destroying fat. Done regularly, it can reduce anxiety but become addictive. Depending on age & body type, kaphas can go for heavy exercises, pittas should do it in moderation and vatas should perform yoga and not aerobics. Never exert more than half your capacity, during illness, just after a meal and without rhythmic breathing. Swimming, walking and even laughing are excellent options.

Massage

Necessary for every person, a regular self-massage with herbal oils is usually adequate but needs to be supplemented with professional attention occasionally. It makes the skin supple, controls vata by reducing its cold, dry, light, rough & erratic qualities, enhances blood circulation, encourages quicker removal of metabolic wastes and relaxes the body. Follow the normal direction of hair growth, use a little extra oil over the body's vital parts, massage the scalp and head at least weekly and just the soles of your feet if short of time.

Meditation

Ideal for disciplining the mind and removing stress & strain, it is best done after a quick bath to cleanse yourself. Critical in satisfying the mind's hunger, when done well it is so nourishing that even the body can survive on less. Control of desire, or mental hunger, is the key to longevity and immortality. Anything can be meditation so long it is sincere and heartfelt. The simplest and healthiest involves the sun and its golden colour is deemed the most nourishing and productive.

While this routine acts as a critical shield of defence against the destabilising influences of an external environment, by using selective choice in some of the other factors mentioned below you can easily improve upon the condition of your total health.

Clothing

In shielding from extreme temperatures, it tends to reflect the temperament of the wearer in a society showing growing preponderance of the same. Should always be light & airy, and made of natural fibres as cotton, wool, linen or silk. Always wear clean, and never anyone else's except that of a saint. Since energy is brought into the body through the crown of the head and exits from the soles of the feet – extracting abnormal heat from the system – the polluted energy usually collects in the footwear. So avoid wearing other's footwear, try not to take shoes into the house and walk barefoot whenever possible. And wooden sandals are more healthy than animal skin or rubber shoes.

Employment

Since work consumes at least one-third part of our lives and success or failure in your profession affects self-confidence, self-worth, it is important that the nature of work should match well with your prakriti.

Vata people love work that requires sudden bursts of intense energy. But it tends to exhaust them also. So to balance it off, despite their dislike, they should be in routine jobs, slightly repetitive. Need a soothing home and work environment to smooth out their rough edges. They need adequate rest, specially in the afternoons. And should avoid places where the air is exceptionally cool and dry e.g. the freezing cold inside electronics manufacturing outfits or exceptionally dusty fertiliser mills. The ideal jobs must have enough excitement to hold their interest and sufficient routine to avoid imbalances.

Pitta people are very practical, making good administrators but not original thinkers. By nature aggressive and self-promoting, these realists see everything as a contest that has to be won. Insisting on being in the forefront of all activity, they cram as much work as they can, demanding perfect functioning from their bodies all the time. They do not take delays and obstacles to their plans well and must seriously try to be fair to and keep their professional and private lives separate. They should avoid work that is physically irritating or involves heat (as welding or metal casting) and listen more to others. They should ideally have sufficient challenge to keep them occupied without the stress of severe competition.

Innate Kapha stability and balance makes them great administrators. They must make a conscious effort bring in change or variety to their otherwise staid and routine lives. And ensure that even if work is not physically active, leisure is. Slow to get going in the morning, competition is good for them although they may find it stressful.

Choice of Pet

Often an extension of their owner's personalities, pets should ideally be chosen so as to have a therapeutic effect on your doshic imbalances.

Vatas get along famously with dogs, the canine's loveable, sloppy, open-heartedness reassuring and stabilising their cold, fearful, fickle nature. Some do well with small, furry high- strung animals as guinea pigs that arouse the maternal instincts in the owners.

The cat is the Pittas favourite. With strongly held opinions on most subjects, the feline presents continuous challenges, even with its movements.

Kaphas in turn prefer birds, the avian's light chirpiness helping offset some of the dosha's natural ponderousness. For some large dogs prove beneficial as the canine encourages them to exercise along with.

Choice of Partner

Ayurvedic wisdom suggests that like types make better mates because of similar mental processes, attitudes and sexual proclivities. Unfortunately, two people of similar dispositions are likely to have the same defects too. Choosing the right partner who will stimulate, inspire you to evolve into better individual thus becomes very important.

Sleep

A state of physical inertia with mental relaxation, sleep promotes proper growth of the self. Night is the natural time to sleep and mid-day catnaps should not be more than 15 minutes long except for the very young, very old, very weak and those intoxicated, diseased, exhausted or traumatised. Avoid having a full meal just before retiring to bed. Sleeping on the right side is the most relaxing and good for yoga. On the left, it is most digestive and increases interest in food, sleep and sex. Sleeping on the back indirectly and on the stomach directly encourages disease. Sleeping with crown of the head facing east and feet into the west promotes the best meditative sleep. Washing the hands, feet & face just before improves sleep. Never sleep in the kitchen and go to bed only to sleep. 6 to 8 hours of daily sleep is essential. The ideal form of sleep is yoga – a state of complete physical inertness with retention of mental alertness & awareness.

(See also: Dinacharya, Ayurveda, Ayurvedic Dictionary, Alternative Health, Body Mind and Soul)

In various countries, routine episiotomy has been accepted medical practice for many years. Various urban legends circulate on the fact that after very rapid natural births, young doctors would still make episiotomies so as not to displease their professors. Since about the 1960s, routine episiotomies are rapidly losing popularity among obstetricians and midwives in Europe and the United States. A nationwide US population study by Weber and Meyn (2002) suggested that 31% of women having babies in U.S. hospit ...

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See: Gastrointestinal tract In humans, digestion begins in the mouth where food is chewed with the teeth. The process stimulates exocrine glands in the mouth to release digestive enzymes such as salivary amylase, which aid in the breakdown of food, particularly carbohydrates. Chewing also causes the release of saliva, which helps condense food into a bolus that can be easily passed through the esophagus to the stomach. In the stomach, food is churned and thoroughly mixed with acid and other digestive enzymes with digestive flui ...

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See the image for the biological life cycle of the hookworm. The hookworm larva lives in infected soil. The larva penetrates the skin on contact, e.g. when walking barefoot, enters the bloodstream and is transported to the lungs. From the lungs and bronchi it transfers to the stomach and intestine by coughing up and swallowing phlegm. The larva clings to the intestinal mucous membrane and develops into an adult hookworm, drawing its nourishment from the blood-vessels of their host, and as the parasites are found in hundreds in the bod ...

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Health problems attributed to the IVC are typically associated with it being compressed; it very rarely ruptures because it has a low intraluminal pressure. Sources of (external) pressure are an enlarged aorta (abdominal aortic aneurysm), a fetus (pregnancy) and abdominal maligancies, such as colorectal cancer, renal cell carinoma and ovarian cancer. Since the inferior vena cava is primarily a right-sided structure, unconconscious pregnant females should be turned on to their left side (the recovery position), to relieve pressure on it and f ...

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A quick test for fecal contamination of water sources or soil is a check for the presence of E. coli bacteria performed with the help of McConkey agar plates or Petri dishes. E. coli bacteria uniquely develop red colonies at temperature of approximately 43 °C (110 °F) overnight. While nearly all strains of E. coli are harmless, their presence is indicative of fecal contamination, and hence a high possibility of ot ...

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The purpose of the anus is to remove feces from the body. Therefore when inserting objects into the anus one may encounter feces. This can make cleanup especially important and difficult. One may wish to cover butt plugs or other objects with a condom before insertion and then dispose of afterwards to simplify the cleaning process. Minimizing the amount of feces present in the rectum may also help. To do this, one may try increasing the amount of insoluble fiber present in the diet. Besides being beneficial for general health, insoluble fiber will also he ...

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Urinals are usually associated with a commercial, industrial, or high capacity men's washroom, where they are used, together with toilets, for high throughput capacity, as part of an efficiently designed washroom architecture. For this reason, one seldom finds an individual urinal. Instead, large numbers of them are installed along a common supply pipe and drain. Individual single-user facilities usually do not have a urinal, and instead have just one toilet. Often, one or two of the urinals, typically at one end of a long row of urinals, will be mounted lower than the others, for use by shorter persons, includin ...

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Urinal, Urinal - Flushing, Urinal - Manual Handles, Urinal - Timed Flush, Urinal - Automatic Flush, Urinal - Waterless Urinals, Urinal - Arrangement of urinals, Urinal - Makeshift urinals, Urinal - Urinals for women, Urinal - Urinals in the news, Urinal - Curiosities

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Nearly all urinals are intended for use by males, but a few have been designed for use by women. From 1950 to 1973, the American Standard company offered the mass-produced "Sanistand." It did not provide significant advantages over conventional toilets, because it used just as much floor space and flushing water. Its main selling point was that women could use the fixture without touching it. Several other designs have been tried since then, but they either required the user to hover awkwardly or to bring her genitals into close contac ...

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In early March of 2004 the National Organization for Women (NOW) took offense[1] to the new urinals Virgin Atlantic Airways decided to install in the Virgin Atlantic clubhouse at JFK Airport in New York, New York. The urinals in question were shaped like an open pair of red lips Female Urinal. After receiving many angry phone calls from female customers Virgin Atlantic Vice President John Riordan called NOW to apologize. [2]. Ironically, the urinal in question was designed by a woman. The company that manufactures them is called Bathroom Mania! and also sell less offensive products including a flower ...

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A paean to British astronomer and national treasure, Sir Patrick Moore. The animation shows him flying through space to play on his xylophone for some dancing Martians. B3ta founder Rob Manuel had the idea behind this cartoon. Weebl's cartoons - Patrick Moore external links. The Patrick Moore cartoon ...

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Weebl's cartoons, Weebl's cartoons - Magical Trevor, Weebl's cartoons - Magical Trevor 2, Weebl's cartoons - Magical Trevor 3, Weebl's cartoons - Magical Trevor external links, Weebl's cartoons - Kenya, Weebl's cartoons - Kenya external links, Weebl's cartoons - Patrick Moore Plays the Xylophone, Weebl's cartoons - Patrick Moore external links, Weebl's cartoons - Breadfish, Weebl's cartoons - Breadfish external links, Weebl's cartoons - Scampi, Weebl's cartoons - Scampi external links, Weebl's cartoons - Strawberry Pancake, Weebl's cartoons - Strawberry Pancake external links, Weebl's cartoons - Salad Fingers

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The movie Breadfish features a single underwater scene of fish embedded in loaves of bread drifting past the viewer, and is representative of the many minor cartoons on the site. It too has looping music, but the loop is much shorter than that for the most famous cartoons. It is also reminiscent of the After Dark "flying toaster" screensavers. As of September 2005, Breadfish has been viewed 1.3 million times on the official website, and possibly many more on other sites. Weebl's cartoons - Breadfish external links. ...

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Weebl's cartoons, Weebl's cartoons - Magical Trevor, Weebl's cartoons - Magical Trevor 2, Weebl's cartoons - Magical Trevor 3, Weebl's cartoons - Magical Trevor external links, Weebl's cartoons - Kenya, Weebl's cartoons - Kenya external links, Weebl's cartoons - Patrick Moore Plays the Xylophone, Weebl's cartoons - Patrick Moore external links, Weebl's cartoons - Breadfish, Weebl's cartoons - Breadfish external links, Weebl's cartoons - Scampi, Weebl's cartoons - Scampi external links, Weebl's cartoons - Strawberry Pancake, Weebl's cartoons - Strawberry Pancake external links, Weebl's cartoons - Salad Fingers

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Physicians use episiotomies to lessen perineal trauma, minimize postpartum pelvic floor dysfunction by reducing anal sphincter muscle damage, reduce the loss of blood at delivery, and protect against neonatal trauma. In many cases though, episiotomies cause all of these problems. Episiotomies may be indicated if: there is any sign of fetal distress while the baby is in the birth canal a delivery occurs too quickly for the vagina to stretch naturally the baby's head is too large for the opening the baby's shoulders are stuck it is a bree ...

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Episiotomy, Episiotomy - Uses, Episiotomy - Controversy about common usage, Episiotomy - Informed consent, Episiotomy - Avoidance

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Labelling is the process by which deviance is recognized. Primary deviance is the time when the person is labeled deviant through confession or reporting. Secondary deviance is deviance before and after the primary deviance. Retrospective labeling happens when the deviant recognizes his acts prior to the primary deviance as deviant, while prospective labeling is when the deviant recognizes future acts as deviant. A taboo is a form of behavior considered so deviant by the majority, that to speak of it publicly is condemned, and ...

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Point prevalence is 10 - 20% of the general population of Western countries with a much higher lifetime prevalence. Prevalence is similar in India, Japan and China. IBS is less common in Thailand and rural South African areas. In Western countries, but not in India or Sri Lanka, females have a greater risk of developing IBS. Of the persons who have symptoms of IBS, only a proportion seeks medical help. However, there is not yet a predict ...

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The reaction by Korean netizens to the incident prompted several Korean newspapers to run editorials voicing concern over Internet vigilantism. One paper said that the woman was the victim of a "cyber-posse, tracking down norm violators and branding them with digital Scarlet Letters." Another called it an "Internet witch-hunt," and went on to say that "[t]he Internet is turning the whole society into a kangaroo court." The implications for personal privacy were also raised. Some said that posting the woman's picture was acceptable, bu ...

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There is a species of ant that builds nests made of leaves. To build a nest, some of these ants pull the edges of two leaves together and hold them in place, while others carry larva in their jaws and 'sew' them together with the silk they secrete. This is certainly a complex feat of engineering, but it is not cultural. This behaviour is instinctive, built into the ants' behaviour mechanisms. They cannot alter their plans or think of better ways t ...

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Unfortunately for the young woman, another commuter took a photograph of her and her dog [1], and posted it on a popular website. Soon Internet vigilantes began closely examining the picture for any clue as to the woman's identity, and within days, she had been identified and much of her personal information was being exposed on the Internet in an attempt to punish her for the offense. The photo quickly became one ...

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iTunes released COADF in 2 digital download versions: A Continuous Mix digital download which will blend each song into one long track. Unmixed Version regular digital download with 12 tracks in alternate beginnings and endings from those of the Continuous Mix. Both digital download versions will be encoded as a protected AAC file. The iTunes release will also include a digital artwork booklet an ...

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