Amniotic Band Sequence Syndrome – A Rare Disorder

Amniotic bands sequence is a inherited diseases distinguished by craniofacial, body wall, and limb oddities that may be in relation with foetal-placental fibrous bands. Its pervasiveness has been delineated to range from 0.19 to 8.1 per 10 000 births [1]. It is a customary state prospectively alike with a variety of different confinements’ disability. The deformities arise in the wake of the pompous bodily part have formed usually in early evolution. The required cause of amniotic disruption complex is undisclosed .The three most usual decorative design are constriction ring syndrome signalized by one or more limbs being high-flown; the limb-body- wall complex; and amniotic band syndrome characterized by abnormalities of the head and face (craniofacial abnormalities), inadequacies of the brain and genuine deformation of the appendages [2]. The condition in few cases might be considered prior to nativity (antepartum), unlikely to change upon the sequels of explicit detailed imaging practices, like fetal USG, which may give away the feature inadequacies [3]. Here we present a case of pregnant woman admitted in our Obstetrics and gynecological department with her ultrasonography report indicative of amniotic band and further discussed about antenatal diagnosis, diagnostic and therapeutic approach, prognosis and genetic counselling of amniotic disruption complex.

What Am I, a Piece of Meat? Synecdochical Utterances Targeting Women

In a September 2004 interview, Donald Trump agreed with Howard Stern’s statement that his daughter Ivanka is “a piece of ass.” This utterance is a synecdochical utterance targeting women (SUTW), by which I mean that its form is such that a term for an anatomical part is predicated of, or could be used by a speaker to refer to, a woman. I propound a theory of what SUTW speakers do in undertaking an SUTW on which the SUTW speaker prompts the hearer to engage in a certain derogatory pattern of associational thinking—that is, taking a “perspective” in Elisabeth Camp’s sense—on the female subject. This perspective is one that reduces her to the bodily part in question—that is, fragments her (reduces her to a part) and biologizes her (characterizes her as mere living tissue). Essentially, the hearer thinks of the woman as a “piece of meat.”

UT ANIMALIUM PICTURA: ARISTOTLE'S HEART IN THE POETRY OF GIACOMO DA LENTINI

The essay analyzes the formation of the oft-cited trope of the image engraved (or painted) in the heart, topical in the Sicilian lyric of the thirteenth century, and the ways in which it re-discusses a painstaking issue of Aristotelian physiology. The trope of the “pintura nel core” (figure in the heart), as described in Giacomo da Lentini's Meravigliosa⋅mente and Madonna mia, a voi mando, is immediately assimilated to the faculty of memory, and the human ability to represent external reality by means of signa. This process of formation that happens in the heart and allows the poet to fall in love is reworked in the image of the “pintura” carved like a seal into wax. The lexical choices of Giacomo's poems point to an Aristotelian understanding of sense perception, centered around the key role of the heart, dependent upon the fluidity of its bodily part, and resulting in an internal representation of phenomenal reality. The link between love lyric poetry and physiological learning shows the interdependence of these two fields of medieval culture, and the ways in which a debated scientific issue can be illuminated by the comparative analysis of vernacular literature and philosophical investigation. Giacomo's reworking of these Aristotelian physiological tenets testifies to his poetical ability to engage with medicine and aesthetic representation.

Hypochondriacal Anxieties in Adolescence

Hypochondriasis is one of the most characteristic psychopathological entities related to the disturbance of the body image, which is the result of complicated identifications with damaged internal objects. Transient hypochondriacal states frequently appear during periods of huge changes, such as phases of bodily growth. They often manifest themselves in adolescence which is the most favourable period for them to appear. The bodily part or function that has changed, and which was initially experienced as threatening or foreign, needs time and experience to become integrated into the total representation of the body. A case example is presented here and implications for child psychotherapy are discussed.

Why the Intellect Cannot Have a Bodily Organ: De Anima 3.4

I reconstruct Aristotle’s reasons for thinking that the intellect cannot have a bodily organ. I present Aristotle’s account of the ‘aboutness’ or intentionality of cognitive states, both perceptual and intellectual. On my interpretation, Aristotle’s account is based around the notion of cognitive powers taking on forms in a special preservative way. Based on this account, Aristotle argues that no physical structure could enable a bodily part or combination of bodily parts to produce or determine the full range of forms that the human intellect can understand. For Aristotle, cognitive powers with bodily organs are always spatio-temporally limited, but the understanding is not. Aristotle claims that our understanding applies to all instances of the thing understood wherever and whenever they exist. On Aristotle’s own account the intellect in its nature is only ‘potential’, it does not actually possess any form. Thus nothing prevents it from possessing all forms.

Liaison Consultation Psychiatry with Patients who Have Replantation Surgery to the Upper Limb

Thirty-eight patients who had replantation surgery to the upper limb were studied and findings, case vignettes and specific liaison-consultation issues are presented. The assessment of the patient for pre-existing psychopathology, such as drug and alcohol abuse and personality abnormalities, is emphasised; the possibility of the amputation having been a deliberate, self-inflicted act is noted; and the roles of pre-accident stress and emotional conflict are discussed. Data concerning adverse post-operative emotional reactions are presented and body-image changes, including the disruption to body integrity and the reintegration of the bodily part, are described. The psychological aspects of replantation surgery are compared to other forms of surgery, in particular amputation and renal transplantation.

Model for the Continuous Description of Motion and Position

A model is suggested for the continuous description of cyclical motion. The model is an application of the sinus equation and derives from the selection of a representative point of a bodily part for which movement is to be described, the identification of a reference axis, and the continuous representation of time. Although restricted to cyclical motion, the model seems useful for describing many behaviors of quite different species by means of the same descriptive elements.