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DERMASCOPE Extras Glossary

A useful and continually updated glossary of spa terms.

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Therapeutic
Having or exhibiting healing powers.
Cranial-sacral therapy
A technique where a practitioner uses a featherweight touch to test restrictions of the cranial system.
Saponification
a reaction in which an ester is heated with an alkali, such as sodium hydroxide, producing a free alcohol and an acid salt, especially alkaline hydrolysis of a fat or oil to make soap
Cryoelectrophoresis
A technique for deep conveyance of frozen natural active substances through the skin, to reach a specific target, using electrical impulses.
Ventouse
a cupping glass
Cryogenic
Used to describe systems at very low temperatures.
Detoxification
Metabolic process by which the toxic qualities of a poison/toxin are reduced by the body
Edema
an excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue spaces or a body cavity
Electrode
A solid electric conductor through which an electric current enters or leaves an electrolytic cell or other medium
Electromagnetic
Of, Pertaining to, or produced by, magnetism which is developed by the passage of an electric current
Etiquette
The practices and forms prescribed by social convention or by authority.
Homeopathy
A system for treating disease based on the administration of minute doses of a drug that in massive amounts produces symptoms in healthy individuals similar to those of the disease itself
Infrared
Of or relating to the range of invisible radiation wavelengths from about 750 nanometers, just longer than red in the visible spectrum, to 1 millimeter, on the border of the microwave region
Ion
An atom or a group of atoms that has acquired a net electric charge by gaining or losing one or more electrons
Ionized
To convert or be converted totally or partially into ions
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