PURPOSE Tongue lacerations in children require treatment decisions by clinicians, but there is conflicting literature on the topic of suturing. METHODS In this prospective study, 28 patients (mean age 3.0 +/- 2.3 yr) with traumatic tongue lacerations were triaged according to an existing protocol to determine if the laceration would be sutured. At least 2 weeks post-trauma, 22 patients were e...

ABSTRACT The Melkersson-Rosenthal syndrome constitutes a rare manifestation characterized by triad of signs and symptoms: recurrent orofacial edema, fissured tongue, facial paralysis. difficulty in diagnosing is that edema common to various diseases besides the lack awareness health professionals frequent metachronous its symptomatology. aim this report present classical case clinical therapeut...

The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the prevalence of oral mucosal lesions in Manipal, Karnataka State, India. A total of 1190 subjects who visited the department of oral medicine and radiology for diagnosis of various oral complaints over a period of 3 months were interviewed and clinically examined for oral mucosal lesions. The result showed the presence of one or more mucosal le...

That English is the lingua franca of today's science is an indisputable fact. Publication in English in international journals is a pre-requisite for a research paper to gain visibility in academia. However, English proficiency appears to be taken for granted in the scientific community, though this language can be a hurdle for a number of authors, particularly from non-native English-speaking ...

Tongue-hold swallow (THS) is a therapeutic maneuver used to increase the posterior pharyngeal wall motion during swallowing. This maneuver has also been reported to result in increased activation of the suprahyoid muscles. The hypothesis of this study was that the degree of suprahyoid muscle activation would depend on the tongue protrusion-length. The aim of this study was to investigate the ac...

Introduction Large-scale planning must employ many disparate planning and decision-making systems, operating over disparate databases to solve many disparate problems. The problem of coordinating so many systems and so many users over so many different sites is immense. The fundamental conclusion we have arrived at as a result of our research on deployment transport planning is that Case-Based ...

" RHYTHMS" have been a part of the lingua franca of the electroencephalographist from the beginning, but in fact truly rhythmic disturbances are exceptional, more particularly among the slower discharges, where great irregularity is the rule. However, in connection with epilepsy it was noted at an early date that waves of a period of about onethird of a second did tend to occur in bursts of fai...

Parasites often play an important role in modifying the physiology and behavior of their hosts and may, consequently, mediate the influence hosts have on other components of an ecological community. Along the northern Atlantic coast of North America, the dominant herbivorous snail Littorina littorea structures rocky intertidal communities through strong grazing pressure and is frequently parasi...

China, one of the world’s oldest civilisations and now routinely cited as the world’s second largest economy, has declared its ambition to rejuvenate and prosper under the government of President Xi Jinping. Since the slogan 'Chinese Dream' was promulgated in 2012, Chinese scholars have been made aware of a new impetus in the promotion of Chinese language and culture. However, globalisation has...

Drawing on a qualitative case study, this article questions two prevailing assumptions: that English is a universal lingua franca and that English proficiency is indispensable for transcultural work. The study involved Japanese manufacturing companies with subsidiaries in China and investigated the language use of Japanese expatriates and Chinese office workers as well as the views of participa...