The tonsils are masses of lymphatic tissue located just behind the tongue at the back of the throat. Tonsils are the first line of defense against inhaled or ingested pathogens and are part of the immune system.

The suffix -plegia refers to a paralysis and is added to root words to distinguish a paralysis of that particular region or structure. An example is hemiplegia, which describes a paralysis on one half of the body.

The action of petrissage is best suited for moving stagnant blood and lymph away from an injury site and replacing it with nutrient rich blood and fresh lymph.

A salt glow is a treatment in which the practitioner applies sea salts to the body in a rubbing fashion to exfoliate the skin.

A bulboid corpuscle is a cutaneous thermo-receptor which detect changes in temperature and relay the message to the CNS.

There are two bones that make the shoulder girdle - the clavicle and the scapula.

The masseter is a dense muscle with a superficial head and a deep head both of which originate from the zygomatic arch of the temporal bone.

Lordosis is a condition of the lumbar spine which causes and anteriorly rotated pelvis. The anterior rotation causes the hip flexors to tighten which includes a shortening of the psoas muscle.

A z-line is the dark band that separate sarcomeres and forms the borders where actin molecules within a muscle combine.

Keloids are a type of scar tissue with an overgrowth of type 3 collagen fibers, creating firm, often shiny fibrous nodules. Cross fiber friction is best suited to break up and smooth over keloid tissue.