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friction rub

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noun

  1. med the sound, heard through a stethoscope, made by the rubbing together of the two inflamed layers of pericardium in patients with pericarditis or of pleura in patients with pleurisy

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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In the same way the friction rub has a stimulating effect upon the nerves.

From Vitality Supreme by Macfadden, Bernarr

First exercise, then employ the friction rub, and then bathe.

From Vitality Supreme by Macfadden, Bernarr

Before going to bed at night, with the mother's hands well oiled with either olive or sweet oil, the circulation is again stimulated by the heavy friction rub.

From The Mother and Her Child by Sadler, William S.

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