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Effleurage, a French word meaning "to skim" or "to touch lightly

on", is a series of massage strokes used in Swedish massage to


warm up the muscle before deep tissue work using petrissage.
This is a soothing, stroking movement used at the beginning and
the end of the facial and/or body massage. It is also used as a
linking move between the different strokes and movements.
Effleurage is basically a form of massage involving a circular
stroking movement made with the palm of the hand.
Effleurage can be firm or light without dragging the skin and is
performed using either the padded parts of the finger tips or the
palmar surface of the hands, and works as a mechanical pump on
the body to encourage venous and lymphatic return. It consists of
four sub-categories:
1. Ethereal or aura strokes
2. Feathering, or nerve-stroking
3. Superficial effleurage
4. Deeper effleurage
5. SANITIZE (verb)
The verb SANITIZE has 2 senses:
6. 1. make sanitary by cleaning or sterilizing
2. make less offensive or more acceptable by removing
objectionable features

7. CUTICLE
8. The outermost layer of the skin of vertebrates; epidermis.
9. 2. The strip of hardened skin at the base and sides of a
fingernail or toenail.

PATHOGEN
A bacterium, virus, or other microorganism that can cause disease.
Synonyms
germ

RADIATION
The emission of energy as electromagnetic waves or as moving subatomic particles.
The energy transmitted in this way.

Synonyms
radiance - irradiation - eradiation - radiancy

BEVEL
Definition of BEVEL

1
: an instrument consisting of two rules or arms jointed
together and opening to any angle for drawing angles or
adjusting surfaces to be cut at an angle
2

a : the angle that one surface or line makes with another


when they are not at right angles
b : the slant of such a surface or line
3
: the part of printing type extending from face to
shoulder

INFECTION
Infection is the invasion of
a host organism's bodily tissues by disease-causing organisms,
their multiplication, and the reaction of host tissues to these
organisms and the toxins they produce. Infections are caused by
microorganisms such as viruses, prions, bacteria, and viroids, and
larger organisms like macroparasites and fungi.
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