While vampires usually do not die of disease or other normal human afflictions, and they are indeed often said to have faster-than-normal healing capabilities, there are various methods for their destruction.
But even as he entertains and diverts with his dramatic tales, Sacks has always been up to something else: he is gently educating us about the frailties and flaws — and the strengths and capacities — of "normal" people, those whose afflictions are of the most ordinary sort.
Resurfacing arthroplasty of the glenohumeral joint has been established for several decades as a means to restore comfort and function of the shoulder for many afflictions that derange the normal anatomy.
Pulmonary function tests remained normal, no progression of the pulmonary parenchyma affliction have been detected so far (Tables 1, 2 and 3).
The "gavage", as this procedure is known, is far more than the bird's metabolism can cope with, and the creature's liver swiftly develops elevated levels of triglycerides and swells by up to eight times its normal size in a disease called steatosis, the same affliction suffered by many lifelong alcoholics.
The latter two afflictions are common in rural Southeast Asia even in normal times.
Samples of normal endometrium or myometrium were collected from patients undergoing surgery for benign afflictions.
He'd posted on his website that he was sick, but when he'd said "chronic fatigue syndrome," I thought that meant normal or mundane tasks overly exhausted him and that was the end of his affliction.
Seven of the 15 unilateral cases had a completely normal opposite limb, but the remaining eight children had a varying degree of radial side affliction with carpal anomalies and thumb hypoplasia (Table 3).
Her desire to treat her daughter as if she were normal prevents her from ever coming clean with Fabrizio's family about the nature of Clara's affliction; and it compels her to gamble on a marriage for her daughter that she knows will be intolerable to her buttoned-down businessman husband, in whose eyes, she sings, she "can see the winter".
