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Subcutaneous
Subcutaneous Below the skin.
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Skin
Skin is an organ of the integumentary system; which is composed of a layer of tissues that protect underlying muscles and organs. Skin is used for insulation, vitamin D production, sensation, and excretion (through sweat).
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Subclinical Diabetes
A term no longer used.
Subcutaneous Injection
Putting a fluid into the tissue under the skin with a needle and syringe. See also: Injection.
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Steroid hormones
A class of hormone biochemically constructed of the same components of which fats (lipids) are made They include the hormones of the testis, ovary, and adrenal cortex.
Stigmata
Signs, marks, or features that indicate special fitness or suitability.
Stigmatic paraphilia
One of a group of paraphilias characterized by triumph wrested developmentally from sexuoerotic tragedy by means of a strategy that incorporates lust into the lovemap on the condition that the partner be, like a pagan infidel, unqualified or ineligible to be a saint defiled.
Stigmatophilia
a paraphilia of the stigmatic/eligibilic type in which sexuoerotic arousal and facilitation or attainment of orgasm are responsive to, and contingent on a partner who has been tattooed, scarified, or pierced for the wearing of gold jewelry (bars or rings), especially in the genital region. The same term applies to the reciprocal paraphilic condition in which the self is similarly decorated.
Stimulus-response theory
In psychology, the theory that human responsivity is determined by contingencies of reward and punishment in the external environment.
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Supramasculinize
To masculinize in excess.
Sympathetic nervous system
Pertaining to that part of the autonomic nervous system which usually prepares the organism to deal more effectively with a situation of strife or emergency, as in fight or flight, the functions of which contrast with or reciprocate those of the parasympathetic system Paradoxically, the sympathetic system is also responsible for the physiological phenomenon of orgasm and/or ejaculation, but not sexual arousal.
SA Node
See Sino-Atrial Node.
Sino-Atrial Node
A part of the heart muscle, located next to the inlet from the Vena Cava, which is the "pacemaker" of the heart.
Sinus rythm
A normal heart rythm being generated by the SA node.
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