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Strandfontein. Strandfontein is a seaside resort 8 km east of Muizenberg and just west of Michells Plain, on the northern shore of False Bay in the City of Cape Town municipality in the Western Cape province of South Africa. It was laid out in 1962. The name is Afrikaans for ‘beach fountain’. [2]
Ectrodactyly, split hand, or cleft hand[1] (from Ancient Greek ἔκτρωμα (ektroma) 'miscarriage' and δάκτυλος (daktylos) 'finger') [2] involves the deficiency or absence of one or more central digits of the hand or foot and is also known as split hand/split foot malformation (SHFM). [3] The hands and feet of people with ...
Strandfontein is a coastal village in the Matzikama Municipality, in the Western Cape province of South Africa. According to the 2011 census it has 431 residents in 92 households. [ 1 ] It lies on the Atlantic coast to the south of the mouth of the Olifants River , [ 2 ] 300 kilometres (190 mi) north of Cape Town .
Hand, foot, and mouth disease. Hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD) is a common infection caused by a group of enteroviruses. [10] It typically begins with a fever and feeling generally unwell. [10] This is followed a day or two later by flat discolored spots or bumps that may blister, on the hands, feet and mouth and occasionally buttocks and ...
Arthritis mutilans. Arthritis mutilans is a rare medical condition involving severe inflammation damaging the joints of the hands and feet, and resulting in deformation and problems with moving the affected areas; it can also affect the spine. [1] As an uncommon arthropathy, arthritis mutilans was originally described as affecting the hands ...
Sotos syndrome is a rare genetic disorder characterized by excessive physical growth during the first years of life. Excessive growth often starts in infancy and continues into the early teen years. The disorder may be accompanied by autism, [1] mild intellectual disability, delayed motor, cognitive, and social development, hypotonia (low ...
Medical genetics. Ectrodactyly – ectodermal dysplasia – cleft syndrome, or EEC, and also referred to as EEC syndrome[1] and split hand –split foot–ectodermal dysplasia–cleft syndrome[2]: 520 is a rare form of ectodermal dysplasia, an autosomal dominant disorder inherited as a genetic trait. [3]: 571 EEC is characterized by the triad ...
The distalmost portion or extremity of the limb, i.e. the hand or foot, is known as the autopodium (plural: autopodia). Hands are technically known as the manus, and feet as the pes. The proximal part of the autopodium, i.e. the wrist or ankle region, has many small nodular bones, collectively termed the mesopodium (plural: mesopodia).