The new social rules established by the covid-19 pandemic have pressed an immense contingent of women to their physical and emotional limits. Línguamãe (mothertonge) is a reading writing workshop about Literature Motherhood created two mothers, writers, expatriated Brazilian women: one in Portugal, other USA. Both occupying same territory extended isolation (the postpartum followed pandemic). A...

The acute-phase response is a pathophysiological defense mechanism associated with inflammatory states that, despite the already established name, occurs in both acute and chronic inflammation. It is characterized by the increase or decrease in serum concentration of certain proteins in consequence of a stimulus that causes tissue damage.1-3 Currently, the term inflammatory biomarker is preferr...

"Acromion" is one of many anatomical terms derived from ancient Greek: it is a transliteration of the Greek word dxp ptov (akromion). For the modern anatomist "acromion" has a precise meaning: "The lateral extension of the spine of the scapula, forming the highest point of the shoulder."' For the ancient Greek writers after Hippocrates, however, the meaning of ezicpd'ltov was a matter of doubt ...