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             Pandora's Word Box 
                Ideas in Words  
  Medical Humanities - Fine Arts - Bioethics 
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To: Esteemed Colleagues, Scholars, Educators, Students, Poets and others who may enjoy the beauty and elegance of ideas in words illustrated by fine arts. 
  
From: W. Wertelecki M.D. 

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	  Gnome Pigmy Nanism


... nuances in MIDGET, GNOME, DWARF, PIGMY and other designations of humans, who are smaller in size, requires several overviews. In this overview, we focus on general ideas associated with the words DWARF and MIDGET. Ideas associated with LEPRECHAUNS and ACHONDROPLASIA are presented in other overviews ... An "enano" is a person with "nanism" ... MIDGET implies proportional diminution of body mass in contrast to DWARF, which implies disproportion. MIDGET points to MUKHA and MUSCA, in Ukrainian and Latin for FLY or GNAT as in GNOME ...


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Works by van der Hamen, de Velazquez.

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