These representations, all anthropomorphic, very often had supernumerary bodily parts: seven arms, three or five heads (Trigelavus, Suantevitus, and Porenutius).
The social unit sought to assure for itself the favour of powerful figures of the past, even of more than one, representing them in several forms on the same pillar or giving to their statues supernumerary bodily parts that would express their superhuman powers.
Thus, paralysed patients could experience a supernumerary prosthesis as part of their own bodies while maintaining ownership of their real limbs.
These results are important because they demonstrate that the central nervous system, under certain conditions, when faced with two equally probable locations of a seen limb, can "split" the limb representation in two, making people experience a supernumerary limb as being part of their own body.
Complex III is defined by three groups of proteins: catalytic core and supernumerary subunits that are part of the structure, and other proteins involved in the assembly of the complex.
Down syndrome (DS) is a chromosomal aneuploidy characterized by the presence of a supernumerary copy of the whole or part of human chromosome 21 (Hsa21) that gives rise to a syndromic intellectual disability.
Although all the S. pneumoniae strains analyzed here contain one plyA copy, which forms an island with the lytA Spn gene, most if not all of the group II non-Ec- Sp strains also harbor a supernumerary plyB gene elsewhere in their genome as part of an ICE element (ICE1 SpST344) (fig. 2).
To experience one's body is to experience from the inside the presence of parts of one's body (cf. supernumerary limbs).
That is the basic premise of J.S. Mayank's 26-minute film Supernumerary, which will be shown at the Newport Beach Film Festival on April 30th as part of a program of five titled Careful What Shorts You Wish For.
At other theatres you worked your way up from dumb understudy to supernumerary to maybe getting a few lines and then, if you were lucky, a proper part.
