"Is it a breathing pipe?" Paul absent-mindedly digs his nails into a lesion just below the hem of his shorts.
Following a swirl of rumours over carnival weekend, Venezuela's president himself confirmed on February 21st that a "small lesion" had been detected during tests carried out days earlier during a secret trip to Cuba.
Sending repeated magnetic pulses disrupts neural transmission in that area, in effect creating a small lesion on demand.
Two of the lesion studies mentioned in the introduction to this survey, dealing with the inability to perceive motion and recognise faces, arise from the fact that visual experience, which for those who can see is the dominant form of conscious experience, is a complete fabrication.
But furious demonstrators continued marching on the streets.Back to the wardVenezuela's president, Hugo Chávez, revealed that he is to undergo an operation in Cuba to remove a small lesion on his pelvis, the same area where surgeons removed a large tumour last year.
He reads the riot act to a drunken Somali, who shows me a small lesion on his leg and demands to know if I have heard of Al Shabab, Somalia's Islamist militia, whom he claims beat him up.Mr Lesmajster says he and Serbia are respecting the law by looking after these people, but you can tell his sympathy is wearing thin.
In humans the first organism produces cystic, slowly expanding lesions principally involving the liver and lungs; the second organism produces an alveolar (pitted) type of lesion that progresses rapidly, may occasionally form lesions in the brain and bones, and is invariably fatal.
Nevus, plural Nevi, congenital skin lesion, or birthmark, caused by abnormal pigmentation or by proliferation of blood vessels and other dermal or epidermal structures.
Prolonged recovery or worsening of symptoms may be indicative of more-severe injury, such as an intracerebral lesion.
In adults malignant melanoma arises as a new lesion or as a change in a benign pigmented mole.
