• A training technique in which various bodily functions, such as heart rate, skin temperature, muscle tension, and brain activity are monitored so that people can learn to control them voluntarily so as to improve their health and physical performance.
  NCI Thesaurus
  U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
• An treatment that helps people learn to gain control over normally unconscious body functions, such as breathing and heart rates.
  Harvard Dictionary of Health Terms
  Harvard Medical Publishing, 2011
• Assisting the patient to gain voluntary control over physiological responses using feedback from electronic equipment that monitor physiologic processes
  Nursing Interventions Classification
  University of Iowa, 2007
• Feedback loop consists of an organism, its response, and a method of detecting and displaying the response.
  CRISP Thesaurus
  National Institutes of Health, 2006
• (biofeedback, psychology) The therapy technique of providing the status of one's own AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM function (e.g., skin temperature, heartbeats, brain waves) as visual or auditory feedback in order to self-control related conditions (e.g., hypertension, migraine headaches).
  NLM Medical Subject Headings
  U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
• For biofeedback, a type of mind-body medicine, electronic devices are used to provide information to patients about biologic functions (eg, heart rate, blood pressure, muscle activity, skin temperature, skin resistance, brain surface electrical activity) and to teach patients to control these functions through mental exercises.
  Merck Manuals
  Merck & Co., Inc., 2020
• Biofeedback is a technique you can use to learn to control some of your body's functions, such as your heart rate. During biofeedback, you're connected to electrical sensors that help you receive information about your body.
  Mayo Clinic
  Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research
• Biofeedback, information supplied instantaneously about an individual's own physiological processes. Data concerning a person's cardiovascular activity (blood pressure and heart rate), temperature, brain waves, or muscle tension is monitored electronically and returned, or "fed back," to that...
  Encyclopedia Britannica
  Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 2020