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Hypertropia is a condition of misalignment of the eyes ( strabismus ), whereby the visual axis of one eye is higher than the fellow fixating eye. Hypotropia is the similar condition, focus being on the eye with the visual axis lower than the fellow fixating eye. Dissociated vertical deviation is a special type of hypertropia leading to slow ...
The Holmes and Rahe stress scale ( / reɪ /) [ 1], also known as the Social Readjustment Rating Scale, is a list of 43 stressful life events that can contribute to illness. The test works via a point accumulation score which then gives an assessment of risk. The American Institute of Stress, for instance, regards a score of 300 or more as an ...
Hypertrophy. Hypertrophy. Hypertrophy results from an increase in cell size, whereas hyperplasia stems from an increase in cell number. Hypertrophy is the increase in the volume of an organ or tissue due to the enlargement of its component cells. [ 1] It is distinguished from hyperplasia, in which the cells remain approximately the same size ...
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Bielschowsky's head tilt test. Step 1: Determine which eye is hypertropic in primary position. If there is right hypertropia in primary position, then the depressors of the R eye (IR/SO) or the elevators of the L eye are weak (SR/IO). Step 2: Determine whether the hypertropia increases on right or left gaze.
c. 50 – Aulus Cornelius Celsus died, leaving De Medicina, a medical encyclopedia; Book 3 covers mental diseases.The term insania, insanity, was first used by him. The methods of treatment included bleeding, frightening the patient, emetics, enemas, total darkness, and decoctions of poppy or henbane, and pleasant ones such as music therapy, travel, sport, reading aloud, and massage.
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Griesbachian-Dienerian boundary-event. 252. Late eruptions of the Siberian Traps [ 22] Permian. Permian–Triassic extinction event. 252 Ma. Large igneous province (LIP) eruptions [ 23] from the Siberian Traps, [ 24] an impact event (the Wilkes Land Crater ), [ 25] an Anoxic event, [ 26] an Ice age, [ 27] or other possible causes.