Thus elderly persons are more susceptible to infections, trauma, and a number of other bodily defects.
To put it simply, if a patient comes to expect that his doctor will tell the entire community about the patient's most embarrassing bodily defects, the patient may understandably deny his worsening symptoms of poor health at the next office visit.
Bodily defects rendered, at Rome as among all ancient nations, a person unfit for holding any priestly office (Dionys. II.21; Senec. Controv. IV.2; Plut. Quaest. Rom. 73; Plin. H. N. VII.29).
Explain how to distinguish symptoms that are defenses from those that arise from bodily defects, and the importance of making this distinction.
These findings are consistent with previous studies showing that rollover movement defects occur independently of synaptic transmission defects (Bodily et al., 2001), and suggest that defective NMJ architecture impairs the muscle control that is required to coordinate the sequence of motor outputs to optimally produce a bilateral coordinated movement (twist-and-roll behavior).
Characteristics of the syndrome include severe mental and growth retardation; congenital heart disease and other internal defects; and a multitude of bodily deformities, such as low-set and malformed ears, cleft lip and palate, a receding chin, convex soles of the feet, a webbed neck, and fingers bent in a unique configuration.
EDS causes defects in collagen, the elastic protein that holds together bodily tissues, meaning most people with the condition have abnormally loose joints and thin and stretchy skin.
Cysts of the prostatic utricle (the uterine remnant found in the male) are often found in association with advanced stages of hypospadias (a defect in the urethra, see below) and pseudohermaphroditism, a condition in which sex glands are present but bodily appearance is ambiguous as to sex; i.e., the secondary sexual characteristics are underdeveloped.
