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Encyclopedia > Visceral

A term often used in usability enginering or user interface design Usability engineering is a subset of human factors that is specific to computer science and is concerned with the question of how to design software that is easy to use. ... The overall process of designing how users interact with computers, devises and machines. ...


Often conected with the Emotional feelings in a product signifies the WOW feeling when seeing a new product. In psychology and common terminology, emotion is the language of a persons internal state of being, normally based in or tied to their internal (physical) and external (social) sensory feeling. ... Look up wow in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Wow may refer to: Music: Wow (record), a pitch variation while playing records with off-center holes. ...


see also Viscus. In anatomy, a viscus (plural viscera) is an internal organ of an animal, in particular an internal organ of the thorax or abdomen. ...


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'Visceral' fat removal prompts hope - The Boston Globe (1374 words)
Rather, it reflects a mounting push among researchers around the world to understand and neutralize visceral fat, now that a growing body of data is showing that it is more harmful than fat near the surface.
Surgery to reduce visceral fat has been tried in rodents, however, and studies have indicated that when it is cut out, the animal’s diabetes improves, the researchers said.
Visceral fat appears to be more metabolically active than surface fat, but much of how it works remains mysterious.
Visceral Pain Mechanisms (4633 words)
A greater proportion of visceral afferents, however, have thresholds for activation in the physiological range and encode the intensity of stimulation throughout the non-noxious and noxious ranges of stimulation (1,21).
Colorectal distension as a noxious visceral stimulus: physiologic and pharmacologic characterization of pseudoaffective reflexes in the rat.
Characterization of neurons responsive to noxious colorectal distension in the T13-L2 spinal cord of the rat.
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