10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LEONTIASIS»
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1
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Paleopathology
Leontiasis ossea. Skull, facial view. Diffuse deposition by unknown causes has
distorted the facial features to a grotesque degree. Eighteenth century site (Ohms
) from the French Pyrenees. Case 3. Courtesy of Dr D. Campillo, Barcelona. UB.
Arthur C. Aufderheide, Rodreguez-martin Conrado, 1998
epileptiform attacks, etc. It is extremely slow, and death may not result for twenty
or thirty years. There is reason to think that in some cases there has been a
spontaneous arrest of the process. Diagnosis. — Leontiasis may be confounded
with ...
3
The American Journal of the Medical Sciences
In fact, the face had now assumed the aspect which is characteristic of
elephantiasis graecorum, or the leontiasis of some authors. The tissues, however
, under and around the chin and lower jaw, and on the neck, had assumed the
hard ...
4
Oxford English Dictionary Additions Series
LEONTIASIS proportions of a-crystallins when derived from retinas of earlier
embryonic stages. leontiasis, n. Add: 2. Path. In full leontiasis ossea ('0519) [
coined in Ger. (R. Virchow Die krankhaften Geschwii'lste (1865) II. 23), f. L.
osseus bony].
J. A. Simpson, Michael Proffitt, E. S. C. Weiner, 1997
5
Companion to Clinical Neurology
Leprosy was Hippocrates' name for psoriasis; later what we know today as
leprosy was called leontiasis by Arateus of Cappadocia, while Lucretius and
Celsus called it elephantiasis.5886 Kushtha (in the Indian Vedas MS of 1300 BC)
was ...
FRCP William Pryse-Phillips MD, FRCP(C) Faculty of Medicine Health Sciences Centre Memorial University of Newfoundland St. John's Newfoundland, 2009
6
The Infection of Thomas De Quincey: A Psychopathology of ...
11. Leontiasis: The. Kandyan. Wars. and. the. Leprosy. of. Cowardice. Poor
Burnes had made but few friends among the chiefs, who now never mention his
name but in terms of the bitterest hatred and scorn. He seems to have kept too
much ...
7
Congenital Diseases and Syndromes: An Illustrated ...
Leontiasis ossea: is a rare form of CFD with extensive maxillary involvement
leading to maxillary encroachment on the orbital cavities, mouth, and paranasal
sinuses, which produces a wide facial appearance likened to a lion's face (Fig.
2.3.1 ...
Jarrah Ali Al-Tubaikh, Maximilian F Reiser, 2009
8
Rapid Review of Radiology
The metaphysis 149b Occipitomental radiograph of skull in a patient with
leontiasis ossea demonstrating hemicranial sclerosis and expansion. 149b is the
primary site of involvement with extension into the diaphysis and the lesion may ...
Shahid Hussain, Sherif Aaron Abdel Latif, Adrian David Hall, 2010
9
Palaeopathology of Aboriginal Australians: Health and ...
of leontiasis ossea emerge. No two cases seem to manifest the same changes,
however, so it remains hard to identify the disease in accurate and regular gross
morphological symptoms. Another disease causing skeletal enlargement is ...
10
Bantam Medical Dictionary, Fifth Edition
leontiasis creased numbers of *melanocytes in the basal layer of the epidermis (
freckles. by contrast. do not show an increase in these cells). In lvnrigo mulignu (
or Hllf('/linson's lunligu), which occurs on the cheeks of the elderly. the spot is ...
