Food for Thoughts – IDEAS in WORDS, IMAGES, and MEDICINE

ACHONDROPLASIA

Among the most frequent Disproportional Short Stature Syndromes

Posnatal mortality risks call of anticipatory care during early life.

Current fashion concerning "short stature" persons is to avoid calling them "dwarf, elf, midget ... etc.) and instead use the term "Little People. In any case, the current fashion nor ...

DISEASE

Dis Disability Disorder

Homeostasis

Vital Vitality Salubrity Health

DISEASE or to be ILL, or to have an AILment, is to be "NOT at EASE". For early Christians, to be SICK implied that a demon or vampire drained the ...

HALLOWEEN (A)

Whole - Heal - Hell

Spirit - Opium - Meconium

(note version B) Any overview concerned with HALLOWEEN probably will touch upon ideas in HALL, HALLER, HALO, HALLO, HALLOW and HEALTH as well as fruitful fruits such as APPLES and ...

CARNIVAL - CARNAVAL - Part 2

Mardi Gras Dionysia Bacchanalia Lupercalia

King Momus Rules - Chaos

CARN          as in          Carnal             VALe   Leave Levitate MAR     Mars Martial          DI   Divine Diva          DIEM   Day Deity                    GRAS   Greasy Unctuous LUPERCALIA     Roman feast LUPUS     Wolf   LUPA     Prostitute   BACCHANALIA     Greek feast   Dancing releases spirits. Many Bacchanalia during Carnival arise fromcombining release from reason facilitated byalcoholic inhibition of inhibitions. Saint Valentine ...

SWALLOW DEGLUT GLUTTON

Good restaurants should provide for restoration of mind and body.  This overview deals with SWALLOW while other overviews explore ideas in FOOD, DRINK, ALCOHOL and SWALLOWing. The consequences of excessive ...

PLAGIOCEPHALY - PLAGUE PESTILENCE PESTLE

Mort Mortar Mortal

This overview exposes the ideas linking MORTar with MORTal and PESTle with PESTilence, PESTs and PLAGUE. Note that pest or pestle points to PLAGA or PLAGE which stands for "stroke". In ...

LOVE

AMOR MIND

DEVOTION DES IRE DIS EASE

CUPID PSYCHE

  Dressing Venus. Love blinds and is blind Amor like Dementia is a powerful God (attr. to Plato) Bliss is Cupid finding Psyche It is desire embracing Mind (from Apuleius Lucius) ...

HAIR HIRSUTE HIRSUTISM

Alopecia Baldness

To explore ideas inherent in HAIR, allusions to SKIN are unavoidable. Note that the skin is an organ that is a subject of a separate illustrated review. The term HAIR ...

NUTRIENT EDIBLE COMESTIBLE FOOD

1 Idea = 1,000 words - Nurture Nurse Nature

1 Image = Magic Imaginations Realized - Ceres Cerebrum Cereal

Allegories like Allergens or Alleles are Alike to Real

This overview is concerned with FOOD. Other overviews explore SWALLOW or to EAT, DRINK, IMBIBE, ALCOHOL and other related ideas. In Europe, Ceres sent Tryptolemos to preside over Agriculture. Wheat and Hay. Knead ...

MIDGET NANISM

PIGMY GNWING GNOMES

Recognize Gnat Gnathia

Gnowing or Knowing Prognosis or Gnosis and more

This is one of three overviews concerned with "little people" who may be called MIDGET, DWARF and by any number of other terms. This overview deals mostly with ideas in ...