facilitation
(fă-sil″ĭ-tā′shŏn)
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[L. facilitas, stem facilitat-, ease]
1. The hastening of an action or process.
2. In neuromuscular rehabilitation, any of the various techniques that elicit muscular contraction through reflex activation. There's more to see -- the rest of this topic is available only to subscribers.
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