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	Sign article - Sign writing system grapheme Signs semiotics linguistics sign medicine - What-Means.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Signs are the basic units of semiotics, which is the systematic study of signs.
		In linguistics, Ferdinand de Saussure described a sign as a combination of a concept and a sound-image.
		In medicine, a sign is objective evidence of the presence of a disease or disorder, as opposed to a symptom, which is subjective.
	www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/Sign (247 words)

	Probert Encyclopaedia: Medicine (#-Ab) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In medicine, A68 is the symbol for a protein which is found in the brains of fetuses and infants but begins to disappear by the age of two years, but is once more found in the brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease.
		In medicine, the A:G ratio is the ratio of protein albumin to globulin in the blood serum.
		In medicine, Aaron's sign is a pain and soreness that occurs between the navel and the right hip bone indicating an attack of appendicitis in the patient.
	www.probertencyclopaedia.com /E1.HTM (1297 words)

	Medical sign - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In medicine, a sign is a feature of disease as detected by the doctor during physical examination of a patient.
		Examples of signs are elevated blood pressure, or abnormal appearance of the retina, or clubbing of the fingernails.
		A number of signs are named after the doctors who first observed them.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sign_(medicine) (136 words)

	Petechia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Petechiae are a sign of thrombocytopenia (low platelet counts), other disorders of coagulation.
		If they appear during illness, especially illness with fever, they may be a sign of septicemia (blood-borne bacterial infection), especially of Meningococcus (a causative agent of meningitis).
		The presence of petechiae in a sick child is therefore an important warning sign.
	www.sevenhills.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Petechia (180 words)

	University of Miami School of Medicine - Glossary - Sign, toe
		The toe sign, also called the Babinski reflex, is obtained by stimulating the external portion (the outside) of the sole.
		It is a sign not merely of trouble but helps to lateralize that trouble (tell which side of the CNS is involved).
		The toe sign is known by a number of other names: the plantar response (because the sole is the plantar surface of the foot), the big toe sign or phenomenon, the Babinski phenomenon or sign.
	www.med.miami.edu /glossary/art.asp?articlekey=7192 (382 words)

	Baby Sign: Real Experiences
		I have been using the signs with my 6 month old, she signs "please" and "thanks" every time she wants something, it took me 6 months to train my 3 year old to use "please" and "thank you", but thanks to the hand signs my 6 month old is already trained with manners.
		I read your article on signing infants and thought you might be interested that 2 of my children could sign by about 6 months (both hearing) and I intend to teach my 3rd to sign (she is only 12 weeks old).
		I started teaching her signs from an ASL dictionary as a means of communicating with her before she could speak.
	www.handspeak.com /tour/kids/index.php?kids=babyppl (2174 words)

	Sign (medicine) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In (The branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques) medicine, a sign is a feature of disease as detected by the (A licensed medical practitioner) doctor during (Click link for more info and facts about physical examination) physical examination of a (A person who requires medical care) patient.
		It is therefore "objective", as opposed to the patient's experience (((medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease) symptom), which is (relatively) subjective.
		These would generally be meaningless to the patient, but can prompt the doctor to look for certain categories of diseases to explain the patient's ((medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease) symptoms.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/si/sign_(medicine).htm (386 words)

	Sign (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In medicine, a sign (medicine)sign is ''objective'' evidence of the presence of a disease or disorder, as opposed to a symptom/, which is ''subjective''.
		In mathematics, the sign of a number refers to whether it is negative and non-negative numbersnegative or positive/.
		Parents can sign up for the state's prepaid college tuition program starting Monday, locking in the cost of education for their children at a Florida public university or community college.
	www.infothis.com /find/Sign (451 words)

	Sign (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This definition tries to establish the dual nature of a sign (as expressed by de Saussure) where the sign is divided into the tangible part (Saussure: signifier) and the conceptual part (Saussure: signified).
		In general linguistics Ferdinand de Saussure described a sign as a combination of a concept and a sound-image.
		O'Leary's external man, as we met him on the and tobacco-pipe, were nothing very outre or remarkable, but when the redolent of eau de Portugal, and superb in the glories of brocade steal away before any chance should present itself of a recognition.
	www.free-web-template.org /si/sign.html (542 words)

	VCSU's Medicine Wheel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The main circle of the Medicine Wheel is 68 feet in diameter with 28 spokes radiating from the center representing the length of the day lunar cycle from new moon to new moon.
		Immediately to the east of the VCSU Medicine Wheel lies a complex of Indian burial mounds first charted by T.H. Lewis on October 29, 1883.
		The VCSU Medicine Wheel can be reached by car by turning north off the Winter Show Road on 2nd Avenue SE at the sign, "Medicine Wheel Park," or by hiking up the footpaths in the wooded hillside south of the campus.
	medicinewheel.vcsu.edu (691 words)

	University of Miami School of Medicine - Glossary - Sign, Lhermitte
		One patient who experienced Lhermitte sign wrote that: "Looking down to sign a hotel register, I felt a spasm like an electric current move along my back from the base of my skull to my toes.
		The causes of Lhermitte sign include multiple sclerosis (MS), radiation damage to the spinal cord), cervical spondylosis (degeneration of the disc spaces between the vertebrae), herniation of a cervical disc, a cervical spinal cord tumor, and subacute combined degeneration (caused by vitamin B12 deficiency).
		The sign is named for a French neurologist, Jean Lhermitte (1877-1959) who originally described it in a patient with multiple sclerosis (MS).
	www.med.miami.edu /glossary/art.asp?articlekey=16050 (181 words)

	DFM: Integrative Medicine: A Sign of Change in Health Care Delivery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In fact, from 1990 to 1997 there was a dramatic increase in the number of visits to these providers compared to a decrease in visits to primary care physicians*.
		The reason for this shift was in part related to the public's perception of conventional medicine as being limited in its scope of practice with an over-utilization of pharmaceutical therapies.
		But just as Family Medicine has drifted away from this philosophy to gain respect from our specialized colleagues, Integrative Medicine is also at risk of being defined by the tools in its toolbox rather than the underlying philosophy of health oriented care.
	www.fammed.wisc.edu /clinical/news0503a.html (456 words)

	AAMC: Association of American Medical Colleges : Tomorrow's Doctors. Tomorrow's Cures. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		AAMC President Jordan J. Cohen, M.D., notes that in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the outpouring of assistance from the academic medicine community has been truly spectacular.
		U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt is scheduled to speak at a special general session of the AAMC Annual Meeting Nov. 8 in Washington, D.C. Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright will also appear as a keynote speaker at the event.
		Registration is open for the Nov. 4-9 national meeting featuring dozens of speakers and hundreds of exhibitors spanning the spectrum of academic medicine.
	www.aamc.org (361 words)

	Sports Medicine Major (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Although the sign had one post for support, it was also suspended from the ceiling's steel beams with threaded rod.
		One of the sign's most unique elements is its sports-ball logo face, fabricated by Visual Graphics (Madison Heights, MI).
		Such creativity is paramount when performing shopping-mall sign work.
	www.signweb.com /fabrication/cont/palace.html (409 words)

	Acupunture and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) in Los Angeles/Beverly Hills
		Though people often become devoted to Chinese medicine (sometimes referred to as Oriental or Eastern medicine) because they see dramatic improvement in their symptoms, the practitioner is always seeking to discover what is causing the symptoms, to treat the cause, and to prevent recurrences.
		Though Chinese Medicine and acupuncture have been used for centuries in China and other countries, it is generally considered "alternative" in the United States.
		Happily, as more and more studies are proving that these therapies work, Western medicine is becoming receptive to them, and many hospitals and clinics have begun referring to modalities like acupuncture as "complimentary" medicine, rather than alternative medicine.
	www.acupuncturehouse.com (352 words)

	Astrology Medicine for the Star Sign Taurus in the Astromedicus in SpiritProject
		It will show whether or not there is an imbalance in the signs influence on you.
		The accompanying signs in the quadrants are Aquarius and Leo.
		This tension is the bow between life and death and demonstrates how important the integration of the opposite sign is for Taurus.
	www.spiritproject.com /medicus/astromed/taurus.htm (778 words)

	Your Teacher Takes You to Colonial Virginia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Period medicines included Peruvian bark for fever, chalk troches for heartburn, and juniper berries as a diuretic.
		The snake wrapped around the pole is the caduceus, a sign still used for medicine today.
		Rhinoceros horn is still used as a medicine in some parts of the world today, which has led to the endangered status of some rhino species.
	www.ohlone.palo-alto.ca.us /Williamsburg/apothecary.htm (161 words)

	LittleSigners.com - Can Teaching Sign Language to Babies Help Their Development?
		Signing also enables her parents to glimpse her feelings.
		association between the sign and the activity becomes clear.
		Now Meadow uses sign language with her first words to begin conversations.
	littlesigners.com /article1.html (944 words)

	Tradetouch Herbal Medicine - Affiliate Program and Reselling Request (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Herbal Medicine has a trial program that allows people to download and evaluate the program before making a purchase.
		You sign up, your account is created and your links are created instantly.
		Signing up is easy and free, with no obligation to stay around.
	herbal.tradetouch.com /affiliate.htm (462 words)

	Astrology Medicine for the Star Sign Sagittarius in the Astromedicus in SpiritProject
		You are born in the sign of Sagittarius?
		The opposite sign of Star Sign Sagittarius is Star Sign Gemini.
		The accompanying signs in the quadrants are Pisces and Virgo.
	www.spiritproject.com /medicus/astromed/sagittarius.htm (670 words)

	Wyoming Photographs--Medicine Bow, Owen Wister
		Entrance Sign to Medicine Bow on the Lincoln Highway, undated.
		After the arrival of the railroad Medicine Bow's primary population was military.
		With the construction of I-80, traffic was diverted from Medicine Bow, but in the 1970's the town experienced growth with the advent of low suphur coal and attained a population of 953 in 1980.
	www.wyomingtalesandtrails.com /photos10.html (749 words)

	Sign (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		On (the side of or above) roads there are traffic signs to instruct drivers.
		Information signs are notices that instruct, advise, inform or warn people.
		In divination a sign is an omen, an event or occurrence believed to fortell the future.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/S/Sign.htm (276 words)

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	Inner Qi Wellness© - Your resource for complementary medicine, healthy living and well-being (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		He is a practicing Doctor of Chiropractic and Functional Medicine, accomplished Body Worker and Creator/Owner of Inner Qi Wellness and the Moon Arbor Tree Gong Society.
		She holds the Bachelor of Science degree in Social and Behavioral Sciences, emphasis in Sign Language Study and Social Work from the University of South Florida; Bachelor of Arts in Speech Pathology and Neuro Psychology; and the Master of Science degree in Speech / Language Pathology from The Florida State University.
		She earned the degree of Doctor of Traditional Chinese Medicine at Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine in China, where she studied Chinese Herbs, Acupuncture, and Western Medicine for five years.
	home.earthlink.net /~zenithtouch/practitioners.htm (924 words)

	American Indian signs
		except on great occasions such as the signing of a treaty or agreement, or the end of a war or a
		MEDICINE (in the sense of the mysterious or the unknown): Hold the right hand at forehead
		WHERE: Make the sign for "question." Then point the right index finger in several directions.
	www.angelfire.com /tx2/ecc/signs.html (1115 words)

	Medicine - Los Angeles Times
		A new study by Finnish scientists shows that young men with high work demands and a lack of control over their jobs show signs of early atherosclerosis, a risk factor for coronary heart disease.
		The eyes are the window to the soul — and to a host of travel-related illnesses, according to a new report in a medical journal.
		On April 1, 1999, Veronica Melendez was in labor at King/Drew when her baby's heart rate began to slow, a possible sign of fetal distress.
	www.latimes.com /features/health/medicine (2695 words)

	Boston.com / News / Nation / Woman interprets Navajo sign language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		While attending boarding school in Peoria, Ariz., she performed a song in sign language after learning the movements by outlining her hand on tracing paper and taping up the pages in her room.
		With money from summer jobs and scholarships and an offer to live with her dad in Albuquerque, Barbone enrolled in Santa Fe Community College's program three years ago.
		An interpreter who is not experienced in the culture might use the sign 'medicine,' as in doctor, but a Native American interpreter would know to use the sign in a spiritual context."
	www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2004/06/19/woman_interprets_navajo_sign_language?pg=2 (414 words)

	Business Wire: GE Medical Systems and American Diagnostic Medi... @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		GE Discovery Series of fused imaging systems represents one of the most significant technological advancements in medicine in the past 20 years according to healthcare experts.
		American Diagnostic Medicine is a pioneering private company in the area of advanced medical diagnostics technology and services.
		The company, which was established in 1984, provides hospital and healthcare facilities of all sizes and medical specialties with the sophisticated technologies that they need to diagnose and care for their patients.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?docid=1G1:80285227&refid=ink_tptd_g1 (745 words)

	ringing ear medicine and gential herpes symptom here. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A ringing ear medicine counselor told me over 20 years ago, "When it comes to sleep, seemingly small changes can make a huge difference in one's sleep pattern."
		Thus, it is hoped that some of the ideas presented in this paper this ringing ear medicine report may make a positive difference in the reader's sleep pattern.
		Learn how to deal with ringing ear medicine, or symptom of herpes in the mouth and insomnia & start sleeping well again.
	www.doctor-brom.com /ringinginear/ringing_ear_medicine.php (286 words)

	NASA - NASA, BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE, SIGN AGREEMENT TO ESTABLISH A NATIONAL SPACE BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE
		NASA today signed an agreement with Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX to establish a National Space Biomedical Research Institute.
		Ralph D. Feigin, President of Baylor College of Medicine said, "this venture is an exciting opportunity for the worlds of space science and biomedical science to join forces.
		"Baylor College of Medicine, the consortium institutions and the integrated research teams are more excited than ever about the extraordinary challenge and potential that this powerful partnership between NASA and academia, linked to industry, offers" said Bobby R. Alford, M.D., chairman of the National Space Biomedical Research Institute Board.
	www.nasa.gov /lb/centers/johnson/news/releases/1996_1998/97-116.html (495 words)

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