Word: naped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...infant was limp. She died with severe respiratory distress at the age of nine hours. The infant weighed 5 Ibs. She had a sloping forehead, poorly differentiated, low-set ears, a broad nose with prominent bridge, and bilateral epicanthic folds. A slight fatty hump was noted at the nape of the neck. Both hands had simian creases. The left hand had four fingers (thumb and three fingers); a rudimentary sixth finger was attached to the right hand. The right foot showed a slight deformity. A roentgenogram taken after death showed eleven pair of thin ribs, absence of part...
...opposite a selected stranger, and with eyes again closed is told by the instructor to sculpt mentally the other person's face. One is told to run one's fingers over the eyebrows, eye sockets, nose, chin and cheekbones, along his or her lips, to feel the nape of the neck, the texture of the hair. The fact of being instructed to do these things is liberating in that it reduces inhibition, guilt and responsibility. When one opens one's eyes, it is as if one had known this person for months rather than minutes. For several...