dedicated to aiding underprivileged children who suffer from cleft palate‚ lip‚ or burn disfigurement by providing reconstructive surgery free of charge. While Operation Smile’s primary goal is to aid individual children who suffer from facial deformities‚ the organization employs a community-based approach to its efforts. Operation Smile travels to communities in countries across the globe launching missions to help the children of these communities. In 1999 alone Operation Smile performed the
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6267450-292100Test #1 Final 00Test #1 Final EXAM 1 Arthritides and Arthropathies To provide a method to logically exercise approach the radiographic findings in arthritis Categories of Bone Disease- common abbreviation is CATBITES C: Congenital (Normal finding) – achondroplasia‚ dwarfism‚ etc A: Arthritides – arthritis‚ spondylitis‚ etc T: Trauma – fractures‚ etc B: Hematological (blood) – osteonocrosis‚ sickle cell‚ thallesemia I: Infection – pyogenic infection‚ TB‚ staph‚ etc T: Tumors
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and the two swords in The Hobbit were Orcrist and Glamdring. Another similarity is each the poem and story has a character that has a deformity. The poem Beowulf has Grendel and is never called a monster but yet they were not sure what he was. The Hobbit’s character that had a deformity was Gollum who we know for a fact he was once a hobbit and developed a deformity that was caused by the Powerful Ring. An Interesting fact about each was the number of men that formed in groups was the constant number
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hough the Bhopal gas tragedy took place close to 29 years ago‚ the city is still experiencing the effects of the gas leak. Around 3700 people died almost immediately following the incident in December 1984. The immediate cause of death was due to choking‚ circulatory collapse and pulmonary oedema (filling up of fluid in the lungs). Further post mortem reports revealed that people died not only of suffocation but also because the toxins had caused swelling in the brain‚ leading to disorientation and
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D. The deficiency may be caused by a lack of vitamin D in the diet‚ a lock of exposure to sunlight‚ or a problem the body has with absorbing or using vitamin D. Rickets is characterized by improper hardening of the bones‚ resulting in skeletal deformities if left untreated. Rickets affects primarily infants and children because bone growth occurs during childhood. Rickets can occur for a number of reasons. According to Nutrition and Well-Being A to Z‚ “The term itself is derived from the old English
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surgery at Lenox Hill Hospital and the Manhattan Eye‚ Ear and Throat Hospital‚ runs the foundation‚ which was started in 2002. Romo has treated children with deformities all around the world and wanted to bring that idea home to the U.S. The organization’s intent hasn’t changed since its inception: correcting low-income children’s facial deformities‚ such as a cleft lip‚ or facial palsy‚ says Romo. If a child seeks the complimentary surgery simply because he’s being teased over his features‚ he won’t
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Clubfoot Definition: A clubfoot is a congenital deformity involving one foot or both. The affected foot looks like it has been rotated internally at the ankle. Without treatment‚ people with club feet often appear to walk on their ankles or on the sides of their feet. It is a relatively common birth defect‚ occurring in about one in every 1‚000 live births. Approximately half of people with clubfoot have it affect both feet‚ which are called bilateral club foot. In most cases it is an isolated
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muscles. The bones become very fragile and very breakable as well as the muscles become very weak. All of these things happen as a result of one out of two genes that carry the instructions for type one collagen‚ this collagen is what carries these deformities. These genes are a major part of a person’s body‚ they are a part of the protein in the bone and the skin. This is why a person’s bones and muscles are so affected by this disease. There are several different types of OI. Type I is the least severe
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staring is ok. A ‘freak’ has no restricted definition‚ but often time’s disfigurement among people leads to the connection of ‘freakery’. Evidence is recurrently used as a tool to preach Thomson’s main claim by making us familiar with deformities. As viewers‚ it is hoped that our constant exposure to deformed individuals through pictures and paintings‚ will make us all the more familiar with the subject‚ giving us the ability to not feel guilty about staring (Thomson 81). Graphic pictures
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The book Wonder has definitely changed my perspective. Before reading this book if I saw someone like Auggie I would have definitely reacted differently. The character I think I would have reacted similar to would be Charlotte. In the book August says when he meets Charlotte “she gave me a quick wave‚ a smile‚ and said nice to meet you”. If I were to meet someone like Auggie I probably would have done something similar. Normally when meeting someone I would shake his or her hand but I would most
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