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Medical Bilingualism: Reframing the Overlap between Medical Systems in Recent Medical History and Anthropology

open access: yesChinese Medicine and Culture
. This paper explores increased use of the concept of “medical bilingualism” since 2015 as scholars, especially of East Asian medical history and anthropology, have applied it to engagements between two medical systems. It reveals an ongoing evolution in
Marta Hanson, Victor Kumar, Zhiheng GUO
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Integrating mandibular evidence to assess morphological variation of the Australopithecus afarensis maxilla

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Geometric morphometric analyses are used to explore variation of maxillary dental arcades of Australopithecus afarensis, expanding on the work of Hanegraef and Spoor, 2025 (Morphological variation of the Australopithecus afarensis maxilla.
Hester Hanegraef   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Medical Anthropology: Pathological Effects of Consanguineous Marriages

open access: yesAnkara Üniversitesi Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi Dergisi, 2017
Consanguineous marriages are characteristic features of particularly the traditional system. Furthermore they are significant fields of anthropology/ medical anthropology in terms of the fact that they set forth the analysis between culture and health ...
Mehmet Şükrü NAR
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Intraspecific variation of cochlear morphology in bowhead and beluga whales

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract The bony labyrinth of the petrosal bone, a distinctive feature of mammal skulls, is often identified in micro‐computed tomography imaging to infer species' physiological and ecological traits. When done as part of a comparative study, one individual specimen is normally considered representative of a species, and intraspecific variation is ...
John Peacock, J. G. M. Thewissen
wiley   +1 more source

Tooth row allometry in domestic rabbits and nondomestic lagomorphs: Evidence for a decoupling of body and tooth row size changes in evolutionary time

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Domestic rabbits of different body sizes differ disproportionately in the length of their tooth row or the length of their diastema. Abstract In various domestic mammals, smaller breeds tend to have proportionally larger teeth, whereas this is not a universal trend across mammals.
Ursina L. Fasciati   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Morphological and morphometric aspects of the equine aortic valve: New insights for comparative studies in mammals

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract New data on the equine aortic valve obtained using advanced techniques is especially important given the greater availability of animal models for translational research. Here we characterized the morphological and morphometric aspects of the equine aortic valve from 60 healthy hearts collected at equine abattoirs.
Vitor Pires Pereira   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

[Medical anthropology].

open access: yesTidsskrift for den Norske laegeforening : tidsskrift for praktisk medicin, ny raekke, 1991
This article presents medical anthropology as an inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary field, in which anthropologists and biomedically trained professionals may find fruitful cooperation. Some aspects of international health care are discussed with special reference to anthropological contributions in this area.
openaire   +1 more source

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