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Hemicorporectomy is a radical surgery in which the body below the waist is amputated, transecting the lumbar spine. This removes the legs, the genitalia (internal and external), urinary system, pelvic bones, anus, and rectum.
The etiology of dural ectasia is unknown, but it has been suggested that is due to increased hydrostatic pressure, [8] general weakened connective tissue [9] or as a result of the pulsatile flow of cerebrospinal fluid on weakened spinal dura. [10] Dural ectasia is common in Marfan syndrome, [3] occurring in 63–92% of people with the syndrome ...
The following day, the doctor arrived to perform the amputation, and, finding no sign of the cancer, news of the miraculous cure spread throughout the town. This only increased the people's regard for Laziosi. He died of a fever on 1 May 1345, at the age of 84. An extraordinary number of people from the town and countryside honored his death.
The word is most commonly encountered in the King James Bible, where it appears in the First Book of Samuel describing a plague that afflicted the Philistines who had captured the Ark of the Covenant from the Israelites. Chapter 5 of 1 Samuel describes a "plague of emerods" that smote the people of Ashdod in their "secret parts", causing many ...
The Tabernacle in the Wilderness (illustration from the 1890 Holman Bible) Pekudei, Pekude, Pekudey, P'kude, or P'qude (פְקוּדֵי —Hebrew for "amounts of," the second word, and the first distinctive word, in the parashah) is the 23rd weekly Torah portion (פָּרָשָׁה , parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading.
Here's how to pinpoint when you're actually in this phase of life even if your symptoms (hot flashes, mood swings, stress, dryness) are nonspecific.
Interpretations disagree as to where in the spine the luz is located. Some say it refers to the small, almond-shaped bone at the top of the spinal column (the first cervical vertebra, C1 or the Atlas ), underneath the brain, on the top of the spine, (the bone where the knot of the tefillin rests).
Cannes is taking over our social media feeds with the biggest celebrity sightings, the most glamorous fashion and riveting film reviews this season has to offer. And that's to be expected: As one ...