N = 50 (about 1/2 of sample) Foreign-born and US Natives Boston (ages 18-30, M = 21.80, 65% female, 50% foreign born) Subjective Stress and Scales. (available in 4 languages): Perceived Stress In the last month, how often have you felt difficulties were piling up so high.
Asterixis is a tremor or movement disorder characterized by movement of hands and wrists that resembles flapping of wings. There is arrhythmic flexion movements of the hands with outstretched arms and dorsiflexion of the wrists. This tremor experienced is involuntary and cannot be controlled by the individual.
-iasis. suff. A pathological condition characterized or produced by: teniasis. suffix meaning the formation or presence of an abnormal condition or disease: dicrocoeliasis, elephantiasis. Combining form meaning a condition or state, especially an unhealthy one.