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Medical diagnosis of CGL can be made after observing the physical symptoms of the disease: lipoatrophy (loss of fat tissues) affecting the trunk, limbs, and face; hepatomegaly; acromegaly; insulin resistance; and high serum levels of triglycerides.
As there are chromosomal differences between females and males, some X and Y chromosome-related conditions and disorders only affect either men or women. [286] After allowing for body weight and volume, the male voice is usually an octave deeper than the female voice. [287] Women have a longer life span in almost every population around the ...
The economic power of Athenian women was legally constrained. Historians have traditionally considered that ancient Greek women, particularly in Classical Athens, lacked economic influence. [146] Athenian women were forbidden from entering a contract worth more than a medimnos of barley, enough to feed an average family for six days. [147]
The Western medical tradition often traces its roots directly to the Ancient Greek civilization, much like the foundation of all of Western society.The Greeks certainly laid the foundation for Western medical practice but much more of Western medicine can be traced to the Near East, Germanic, and Celtic cultures.
The Spartan diet was also marked by its frugality. A notorious staple of the Spartan diet was melas zomos , made by boiling the pigs' legs, blood of pigs, olive oil, bay leaf, chopped onion, salt, water, and vinegar as an emulsifier to keep the blood from coagulation during the cooking process. The army of Sparta mainly ate this as part of ...
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The female nude emerged as a subject for art in the 5th century BCE, illustrating stories of women bathing both indoors and outdoors. [30] The passive images reflected the unequal status of women in society compared to the athletic and heroic images of naked men. [31] In Sparta during the Classical period, women were also trained in athletics.
In Greek mythology, maenads (/ ˈ m iː n æ d z /; Ancient Greek: μαινάδες) were the female followers of Dionysus and the most significant members of his retinue, the thiasus. Their name, which comes from μαίνομαι ( maínomai , “to rave, to be mad; to rage, to be angry”), [ 1 ] literally translates as 'raving ones'.