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

VARUS VALGUS

CLUBFOOT TALIPES PIEBOT

PES EQUINUS - PLANUS - CAVUS CALCANEUS

HALLUX VALGUS - BUNION

Feet, hands, digits and limbs in general, reflect the mechanical forces shaping their morphology. Often limbs may become "deviated" from the "normal" axis and cause correctable, thus preventable but potentially serious disabilities. Note that ...

DIONYSUS (part 3) - BACCALAUREATE LAURELS LIBATIONS

Bacchus Bachelor Bacchanalia Debauched Bacchants

BA and BS are Laurels calling for LIBERATING LIBATIONS ate Libate Liberate Libertine

Libations can be Liberating and also degenerate into Frantic Frenzy

"javascript:viewimage(' Bacchae or celebrants of Dionysus This overview explores BACCALAUREATE. Those who earn this degree, owe their LAURELS (or BACCA) to the memory of BACCHUS ( DIONYSUS). Dionysus represented in a manneristic ...

OBESITY OBESE FAT ADIPOSITY ADIPOSE LIPID OIL OLIVE

BUTTER BUTT BUTTOCKS CALLIPER CALLIPYGIAN CALIFORNIA

GREASE LARD SUET STOUT

Contrary to languages` heavy exploration of the term OBESITY, it is only recently that science has begun to unravel the importance of the ADIPOSE tissue and LIPID cells. For example, ...

PALE ANEMIA LIVID ANEMONE MALADY MALARIA

MALADY MAL-AREA MALARIA

Pale Pallor Paleness

PALe or in Latin PALlidus implies "not bright", thus ANEmic like. The opposite is ANEMONE, a blood like bright red wild flower growing in WINDy areas. These are the "think ...

HAPPY NEW YEAR SALUTATION

Best wishes from Saturn Janus and Juno

Greetings from Aesculapius Hygeia Panacea and Fortuna

We wish you Happy New Beginnings (Peace Health Happiness and Fortune)

For Romans, the summit or zenith of each year was the week long SATRUNalia festivity ending December 24th. December 25th was (is)  the birthday of Mithra. With the advent of Christianity emerged religious ...

TUBER TUBEROUS TUBERCULOSIS

Phthysis

Consumption

Harvesting tubers or bulbs is consuming work. Flowering potato fields spring earlyevery spring. The ideas implicit in a TUBER like the potato refer to a knob like swelling or prominence and are ...

DREAM DREAD DEATH VISION TRANCE

Nightmare Night Nothing Nix Noxious Nocturnal

Mara Ruin Mar Mars Marathon

Morbus Morbidity Mortality

This overview is concerned with DREAMS, SLEEP and DEATH - in fact SLEEP is like slipping into reversible DEATH populated by DREAMS and NIGHTMARES. In Medicine, MORBUS and MORBIDITY also point to ...

ALCOHOL LIBATION LIBERATE LIBERTINE ARDOR

Spirit Aspire Inspire Expire Vital AquaVit Aguardiente

Methanol Ethanol Bromides Bromus Bacchus Dionysus Asco

Bebe Baby Beber Imbibe Beer Babble

Two illustrated overviews are concerned with ALCOHOL and are companions to those dealing with BABY maily IMBIBE their food.  In moderation, libations with wine liberate and inspire. Consuming spirits may lift spirits. ALCOHOL, AQUA VITA, AGUARDIENTE ...

RHINOPHYMA ROSACEA RHODOPSIN

Rubella Roseola Rose Red

Color Colorado

Some poets stress that ROSES are RED but in Spanish a ROSA means ROSADO or pink. RED in Latin is RUBOR as in RUBRIC which, in modern times, refers to ...

SLIP SLEEP SLUMBER

Dormant Dormatory Somnus Somnolent Somnambulist

Narcosis Narcotic Nacolepsy

This oveview, concerned with SLEEP, SLIP and SOMNolence is a companion to another concernd with DREAMS and VISIONS. Classic mythology offers an overture to ideas that point out that SLEEP can be reversible. However, ...