A semiology-based approach to understanding humour is being developed and an interpretation of as a “counter-sign,” two-faced sign within the space conventionality, put forward. The range core attributes interpret phenomenon determined. concepts “frame significance,” “conventionality,” “meta-communicative marker conventionality” are elaborated. general definition formulated “sign-based identifi...

Bacterial toxin poisoning Clostridium botulinum Human disease due to the Clostridium botulinum bacterium is called botulism and is classified as poisoning because it is due to botulinum neurotoxins produced outside the human body by this anaerobic bacterium. Contaminated food is mainly of animal origin, but it can also be of plant origin (processed meat, ham, cheese, canned meat, fish, canned b...

Epilepsy represents a multifaceted group of disorders divided into two broad categories, partial and generalized, based on the seizure onset zone. The identification of the neuroanatomic site of seizure onset depends on delineation of seizure semiology by a careful history together with video-EEG, and a variety of neuroimaging technologies such as MRI, fMRI, FDG-PET, MEG, or invasive intracrani...

1. Seizure semiology of these patients was not included in the study. Semiology may be helpful to further classify these patients as benign partial epilepsy in infancy with complex partial seizures versus benign partial epilepsy in infancy with secondary generalized seizures (SGS). Though, proposal was made to combine these syndromes in the past, some subtle differences exist such as predominan...