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Book Review: Exploring Ancient Native America: An Archaeological Guide, by David Hurst Thomas, 1994. Macmillan, New York, xxii + 314 pp., maps, photographs. [PDF]

, 1997
This book on the sites, museums, and archaeological programs across the United States and Canada by David Hurst Thomas should be of great interest to the avocational and professional archaeological community.
Perttula, Timothy K.
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A critical reappraisal of the carotid sinus and carotid bulb: Distinguishing neurohistological function from vascular geometry

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
This review redefines the carotid bulb (CB) as a variable geometric dilation shaped by hemodynamics and the carotid sinus (CS) as a conserved neurohistological baroreceptor field. Distinguishing these entities clarifies a century of anatomical confusion and links geometry, neurohistology, and clinical interpretation within a unified framework ...
Răzvan Costin Tudose, Nicolae Radu, Mugurel Constantin Rusu   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Probe into "Zhu Bing" in the Dunhuang Manuscripts

Yixue yu zhexue
As a cultural treasure unearthed from the Sutra Cave in Mogao Grottoes, the Dunhuang manuscripts greatly enrich the body of ancient Chinese medical texts, particularly those from the Sui and Tang dynasties.
Yuxiao LIU, Yuan LIU
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A History of Dystonia: Ancient to Modern [PDF]

, 2017
Before 1911, when Hermann Oppenheim introduced the term dystonia, this movement disorder lacked a unifying descriptor. While words like epilepsy, apoplexy, and palsy have had their meanings since antiquity, references to dystonia are much harder to ...
Deborah Thorpe, Jane Alty, Peter Kempster, Rachel Newby   +3 more
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Disease heritability enrichment of regulatory elements is concentrated in elements with ancient sequence age and conserved function across species

bioRxiv, 2018
Regulatory elements, e.g. enhancers and promoters, have been widely reported to be enriched for disease and complex trait heritability. We investigated how this enrichment varies with the age of the underlying genome sequence, the conservation of ...
M. Hujoel, S. Gazal, F. Hormozdiari, Bryce van de Geijn, A. Price   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Modern competency‐based teaching of human sexual development

Anatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.
Abstract Embryology is an integral part of anatomy and a key subject in basic medical education. The development of the sexual tract, which is closely associated with the formation of the urinary tract and the organs of continence, is particularly complex and relevant for many medical disciplines.
Elisabeth Eppler, Alessandro Bilella, Christian M. Hammer   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tracing back ancient oral microbiomes and oral pathogens using dental pulps from ancient teeth

npj Biofilms and Microbiomes, 2016
Ancient dental pulps are highly precious samples because they conserve DNA from humans and blood-borne pathogens for ages. However, little is known about the microbial communities present in dental pulps.
Nicolás Rascovan, Hong Huynh, Gérard Chouin, Kolawole Adekola, Patrice Georges-Zimmermann, Michel Signoli, Yves Desfosses, Gérard Aboudharam, Michel Drancourt, Christelle Desnues   +9 more
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Marine silicon for biomedical sustainability

BMEMat, EarlyView.
Schematic illustrating marine silicon for biomedical engineering. Abstract Despite momentous divergence from oceanic origin, human beings and marine organisms exhibit elemental homology through silicon utilization. Notably, silicon serves as a critical constituent in multiple biomedical processes.
Yahui Han, Zhibo Yang, Wei Xia, Chengtie Wu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A short historical overview on the use of lead [PDF]

, 2018
This historical introduction to the use of lead in art and technology was originally written to give context to lead conservation studies by the authors.
Adriaens, Mieke, De Keersmaecker, Michel, Dowsett, Mark   +2 more
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Galen, divination, and the status of medicine [PDF]

, 2014
Galen's stories about his successes in predicting the development of an illness belong to the best-known anecdotes drawn from his writings. Brilliant pieces of self-presentation, they set Galen apart from his peers, who tried to cover up their ignorance ...
Amundsen, Athanassiadi, Bardy, Beard, Beard, Blänsdorf, Boudon, Boys-Stones, Duffy, Edelstein, Edelstein, Edelstein, Feyerabend, Frede, Guillaumont, Hammerstaedt, Hankinson, Hankinson, Ierodiakonou, Jouanna, Kany-Turpin, Klingshirn, Krostenko, Kudlien, Lloyd, Meyerhof, North, North, Nuffelen, Nutton, Nutton, Nutton, Oberhelman, Oberhelman, Peter van Nuffelen, Ripat, Rives, Rosenthal, Schouten, Smith, Strohmaier, Strohmeier, Swain, Trapp, Vegetti, Von Staden, von Staden   +46 more
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