Severe leg pain, swelling, and tenderness after an injury can also be a sign of bone fracture. Aching or itching in the legs maybe a symptom of varicose veins, those prominent blue or purple veins on the legs or ankles. If you have the following symptoms, call your doctor: Persistent pain in your leg.
Alpha waves are one type of brain waves detected either by electroencephalography (EEG) or magnetoencephalography (MEG) and predominantly originate from the occipital lobe during wakeful relaxation with closed eyes.
1 also called delta rhythm, the slowest of several types of brain waves, characterized by a frequency of 4 Hz and a relatively high voltage. Delta waves are deep-sleep waves associated with a dreamless state from which an individual is not easily aroused. Compare alpha wave, beta wave, theta wave. 2 (in cardiology) a slurring of the QRS portion of an electrocardiogram tracing caused by preexcitation in Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome. Cardiology An EKG finding in WPW syndrome, seen as a slow upstroke of the QRS wave in a background of short P-R intervals See Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome.