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CAPUT
Caput Medusa
Front Forehead Anencephaly Hydrocephaly Hydra
Sagittal Sagacious Sagittarius Saga Biceps Triceps Quadriceps
The point of this Chapter is dedicated to ideas in Cap, Cup, Caput or head, as well as to "go ahead" and explore CAPital vistas including some found in Bible and in classic mythology. Not mentioned here are ideas related to Sagittarius and its place in the Zoo of Zodiac emblems. Likewise, we leave to a medical overview the subject of "Caput Medusa", once a common sign suggestive of the snake-like hair of the mythologic Medusa - this sign was noted on the peri-umiblical regions of chronic alcoholics suffering from cirrhosis of the liver (a crown like of bluish veins radiating awat from the umbilicus - reflecting collateral flow of venous blood away from a fibrosed liver).
Di-CEPHalus Serpent or Coatl
Spanish conquerors asserted that this Coatl was "given" to them as a "gift".
Spanish conquerors asserted that this Coatl was "given" to them as a "gift".
To move "straightforward" or ahead, a start is to
note that the Cranium or Cephalon lacks "straight" features, except
for one structure, the Sagittal suture. To think "sagittally" is
typical of Sagatious Sages, as if to underscore that "thinking straight as
an arrow" is a path to wisdom. The term Sagitta (arrow) found in
"straight as an arrow" is applied to the serrated midline Skull
suture joining the left and right parietal bones or halfs of the CAP, CUP or
CUPola of the head or Cranial vault. For anatomists, any plane parallel to the
Sagttal suture is a Sagittal plane. Bacause by these pages we honor Medicine and the Healing Arts, we must mention Sagittarius, also known as Chiron, the
centaur who taught Esculapius surgery and how to "shoot arrows
straight". From Chiron we get Khirurgh, Chirofano or quirofano, Cirujano
and Chiropractor, which in Ukrainian, Spanish and English stand for surgical
operating room, surgeon and therapists who heal by hand Manipulations (manus
being hand).
Greek Sages had good sagittal sutures and were sagacious
Chiron teaching Aesculatius
Esculapius - Deified Personification of Medicine
Returning to "straightFORWARD", a frontal point of
the head is the METOPIC area or FOREHAED or in Spanish by FRENTE. In Ukrainian,
forehead is CHOLO, and it represents a landmark of man or CHOLOvik. The human
Forehead and Frontal cerebral lobe are larger than in other simians, a likely
reason why humans have greater capacity for FORETHOUGHT and penchant to be
conFRONTational and to become obnoxious and noxious.
It is self-evident that most organisms are monoCEPHALIC. However, ANENCEPHALIC births are well known, (a fatal CEREBRAL or CEPHALON maldevelopment). Recent studies show that nearly 70% of instances of anencephaly, spina bifida, and related birth defects can be prevented by folic (foliage) acid pills taken before and during early pregnancy.
The presence of two, three, four, or many heads is referred
to as BICEPS, TRICEPS, QUADRICEPS, and MULTI or POLYCEPHALY. In medical
parlance, BICEPS, TRICEPS, QUADRICEPS, refers to muscles with two, three, or
four tendon "heads" or insertion points.
Hercules - Cerberus - Hydra - Polycephaly
Concerning POLYCEPHALY, the Bible speaks of multi-headed dragons and classic mythology offers delightful stories such as two of the labors of Hercules. In one labor, Hercules had to face a polycephalic Hydra and in another, he had to capture a quadro-icephalic dog-like monster called Cerberus.
Polycephalic Cerberus and Hydra
Teratologists have described severely malformed "double headed "monsters" and clinicians have reported double headed "Siamese" twins. These types of birth defects represent an incomplete "splitting" of an embryo into two nearly identical organisms. When identical twins fail to fully separate and the shared body parts (attachment) are relatively uncritical, such twins may survive in a "co-joined" state and often are "bi-cephalous".
Biblical theologians have debated if the domicile of the soul is the head or the heart. Racists South Africa, not long ago debated if a deceased "white" recipient of cardiac transpant from a "Black" donor could be burried among "Whites".
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