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Scolecology Scolex Scolices Scoliosis

Engraved before 1811 from an original in the then Museum Pio Clemens in Rome (Click for details)

Esculapius (Medicine) between Mercury (Merchants) and the Graces (Medicine, Hygiene and Panacea)
Esculapius dealt with Patients - Merchants make deals with Clients

~ SCOLECOLOGY  sc> STUDY OF HELMINTS or TAPEWORMS
                   component of HELMINTOLOGY
~ SCOLEX       or plural
~ SCOLICES     id+ | CURVING as if to denote the
                     mode how worms move |
               gr  SKOLIOS = TWISTED
               lat SCOLEX    WORM  note TAPEWORM
               biol> THE ORGAN BY WHICH A TAPEWORM
                     ATTACHES WITH
               med> such organisms often are PARASITES
~ SCOLIOSIS    id+ | CURVE or CROOKED
               sug> SCALENE  SCOLEX
  med> LATERAL DEVIATION OF THE SPINE FROM
       THE STRAIGHT VERTICAL LINE
  see> KYPHOSIS
       AN EXCESS OF POSTERIOR BOWING of the DORSAL SPINE
  see> LORDOSIS
  EXCESS OF ANTERIOR BOWING of the LUMBAR SPINE

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