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A family from a Ba Aka pygmy village. The term pygmy, as used to refer to diminutive people, comes via Latin pygmaeus from Greek πυγμαῖος pygmaîos, derived from πυγμή pygmḗ, meaning "short cubit", or a measure of length corresponding to the distance from the elbow to the first knuckle of the middle finger, meant to express pygmies' diminutive stature.
A mother holding her son who was born with microcephaly due to vertically transmitted infection with Zika virus. Microcephaly bu kataral anginadan so'ng ya'ni uning oqibatida asorat sifatida kelib chiquvchi ''Qudratbek kasalligi'' hisoblanib asosan oshqozonning bosh hujayrakari diffuz kataral o'tkir yallig'lanishdan keyingi holat bo'lib qonda bosh hujayralarning abnormal ishlashi natijasida ...
Hindu woman in Kullu, Himachal Pradesh wearing a bindi. A bindi (from Sanskrit bindú meaning "point, drop, dot or small particle") [1] [2] is a coloured dot or, in modern times, a sticker worn on the centre of the forehead, originally by Hindus, Jains and Buddhists from the Indian subcontinent.
Pagri, sometimes also transliterated as pagari, is the term for turban used in the Indian subcontinent. [1] It specifically refers to a headdress that is worn by men and women, which needs to be manually tied.
The literal meaning of cynocephaly is "dog-headedness"; however, that this refers to a human body with a dog head is implied. Such cynocephalics are known in mythology and legend from many parts of the world, including ancient Egypt, India, Greece, and China. Further mentions come from the medieval East and Europe.
In Islamic cultures, some men wear a turban-style headdress in emulation of Muhammad who is believed to have worn a black or white turban. [32] [5] [33] [34] [35] It is sometimes called an Imama. The head wraps are worn in different ways and called by different names depending on the region and culture.
A team of archaeologists wrote in the journal Nature Communications that the “astonishingly small adult limb bone” offers fresh insight on the evolution of the diminutive Homo group.
Traditionally, Hindu men shave off all their hair as a child in a samskāra or ritual known as the chudakarana. [13] A lock of hair is left at the crown (). [14]Unlike most other eastern cultures where a coming-of-age ceremony removed childhood locks of hair similar to the shikha, in India, this prepubescent hairstyle is left to grow throughout the man's life, though usually only the most ...