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e. Cropping is the removal of a person's ears as an act of physical punishment. [1] It was performed along with the pillorying or immobilisation in the stocks, [2][3] and sometimes alongside punishments such as branding or fines. [2] The punishment is described in Victor Hugo 's The Hunchback of Notre-Dame.[4]
Otoplasty. Otoplasty (Greek: οὖς, oûs, "ear" + πλάσσειν, plássein, "to shape") is a procedure for correcting the deformities and defects of the auricle (external ear), whether these defects are congenital conditions (e.g. microtia, anotia, etc.) or caused by trauma. [1] Otoplastic surgeons may reshape, move, or augment the ...
The Mustardé technique involves making a long incision on the back of the ear and removing a strip of skin. The skin is dissected from the cartilage between he edge of the ear (helix) and the place where the ear is attached to the head (sulcus posterior), thus exposing the cartilage on the back of the ear. It is therefore assigned to the open ...
It belongs to the closed ear pinning surgeries because the ear is not cut open for the placement of the sutures. According to the experience of the author the Stitch Method is suitable for all protruding ears. The stitch method is the most frequently performed otoplasty among the minimally invasive methods. [citation needed]
EarFold. EarFold or EarFold method is a surgical method for pinning protruding ears. In contrast to all the other ear-pinning procedures (otoplasty), metal implants are used instead of sutures. As far as the invasiveness of the surgery is concerned, the Earfold method ranks between the open, invasive conventional ear-pinning procedures (6, 7, 8 ...
Terminal lucidity (also known as rallying, terminal rally, the rally, end-of-life-experience, energy surge, the surge, or pre-mortem surge) [1] is an unexpected return of consciousness, mental clarity or memory shortly before death in individuals with severe psychiatric or neurological disorders. [2][3] It has been reported by physicians since ...
Especially when accompanied by shortness of breath, these symptoms can indicate cardiac amyloidosis, Zoghbi says. “It’s a problem of protein misfolding,” he explains. “The protein, which ...
Lewis bore a striking resemblance to Gable, including having ears that stuck out. [3] When Lewis was seven years old, Young had her undergo a painful operation to pin her ears back in another attempt to hide her real parentage. [3] In 1950, when Lewis was fifteen, her mother made another film with Gable, Key to the City. During this time, Gable ...