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biomedicalephemera: ofpaperandponies: I love the sphenoid complex. It’s gorgeous. It looks so much like a tattered but unbroken moth.  Your sphenoidal sinuses are deep within your skull, behind the olfactory bulb and olfactory sensors in the very back of your nose. They sit around the pterygoid wings of the sphenoid bone, and the upper wall of the sinuses is the upper wings of the bone. These wings are the last bone structure before the brain, and though they’re strong, they’re thin and brittle, and can easily be damaged or destroyed by tumorous growths and head injuries. Serious sinusitis before antibiotics could become deep-seated (it is usually treated before this happens these days), and if there are any cracks in the pterygoid wings, easily invade the brain cavity. Because of this and related reasons, bacterial meningitis and encephalitis (more serious and higher risk of complications) was at one time much more common than viral meningitis around the world, as it still is in developing countries. The mortality rate was about 10-15%, but many times even people with resolved infections ended up with hearing loss, brain damage, and in children, learning disabilities. That said, the most important things are that the sphenoid complex seats the pituitary gland, provides support for the optic and the olfactory nerves, and a boundary between the open sinuses (prone to infection) and the brain structures. It prevents transmission of bacteria to the brain, and it provides a stable platform for the nerves that allow us to both see and smell the world around us. What an important and lovely structure.

biomedicalephemera:

ofpaperandponies:

I love the sphenoid complex. It’s gorgeous. It looks so much like a tattered but unbroken moth. 

Your sphenoidal sinuses are deep within your skull, behind the olfactory bulb and olfactory sensors in the very back of your nose. They sit around the pterygoid wings of the sphenoid bone, and the upper wall of the sinuses is the upper wings of the bone. These wings are the last bone structure before the brain, and though they’re strong, they’re thin and brittle, and can easily be damaged or destroyed by tumorous growths and head injuries.

Serious sinusitis before antibiotics could become deep-seated (it is usually treated before this happens these days), and if there are any cracks in the pterygoid wings, easily invade the brain cavity. Because of this and related reasons, bacterial meningitis and encephalitis (more serious and higher risk of complications) was at one time much more common than viral meningitis around the world, as it still is in developing countries. The mortality rate was about 10-15%, but many times even people with resolved infections ended up with hearing loss, brain damage, and in children, learning disabilities.

That said, the most important things are that the sphenoid complex seats the pituitary gland, provides support for the optic and the olfactory nerves, and a boundary between the open sinuses (prone to infection) and the brain structures. It prevents transmission of bacteria to the brain, and it provides a stable platform for the nerves that allow us to both see and smell the world around us.

What an important and lovely structure.

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My fiance has been saying “I need a new computer, this thing is going on the fritz and will soon destroy something critical!” for a while. Granted, he’s telling the truth, and the thing’s several years old, and it really does need to be replaced. But in terms of “destroying things”, I forgot about that/didn’t take him very seriously, and left my external hard drive plugged in while I went down to my parents’ place for a few days. Came back yesterday. Yep. No more external. nbd, just 80,000 images gone (~12,000 that I’ve edited for the blog specs). I have about 3,000 on various other harddrives. 5,000 on a cloud drive. Long story short I need to maybe pay attention to when my dude says he needs a new computer and that his is going to kill things if he doesn’t get one. I know what’s wrong with the external (logic fried on the PCB), but tbh, it would probably take just as long or as much money to recover as it would to find a whole new set of files. Just don’t expect anything serious from me anytime soon. Not that you did, anyway. But serious blogginess will come back. I’m not dead yet.

My fiance has been saying “I need a new computer, this thing is going on the fritz and will soon destroy something critical!” for a while. Granted, he’s telling the truth, and the thing’s several years old, and it really does need to be replaced.

But in terms of “destroying things”, I forgot about that/didn’t take him very seriously, and left my external hard drive plugged in while I went down to my parents’ place for a few days.

Came back yesterday.

Yep.

No more external.

nbd, just 80,000 images gone (~12,000 that I’ve edited for the blog specs).

I have about 3,000 on various other harddrives. 5,000 on a cloud drive.

Long story short I need to maybe pay attention to when my dude says he needs a new computer and that his is going to kill things if he doesn’t get one.

I know what’s wrong with the external (logic fried on the PCB), but tbh, it would probably take just as long or as much money to recover as it would to find a whole new set of files.

Just don’t expect anything serious from me anytime soon. Not that you did, anyway. But serious blogginess will come back. I’m not dead yet.

Birds know how to get down! Principles of Zoology, Part I: Comparative Physiology. Louis Agassiz and A. A. Gould, 1851. [I don’t actually know the species of bird illustrated here. It was mentioned in the text as “the prototypical bird”, sooooo…a passerine? A chicken? A crow? The structure doesn’t look like any of them.]

Birds know how to get down!

Principles of Zoology, Part I: Comparative Physiology. Louis Agassiz and A. A. Gould, 1851.

[I don’t actually know the species of bird illustrated here. It was mentioned in the text as “the prototypical bird”, sooooo…a passerine? A chicken? A crow? The structure doesn’t look like any of them.]

Shoebills!

I know you all have seen the intimidating shoebill gifs going around…it’s typical of them to look like that, by the way. Even the first time they were described, they were called “menacing”!

Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, Vol. IV. 1849.

ofpaperandponies: I love the sphenoid complex. It’s gorgeous. It looks so much like a tattered but unbroken moth.  Your sphenoidal sinuses are deep within your skull, behind the olfactory bulb and olfactory sensors in the very back of your nose. They sit around the pterygoid wings of the sphenoid bone, and the upper wall of the sinuses is the upper wings of the bone. These wings are the last bone structure before the brain, and though they’re strong, they’re thin and brittle, and can easily be damaged or destroyed by tumorous growths and head injuries. Serious sinusitis before antibiotics could become deep-seated (it is usually treated before this happens these days), and if there are any cracks in the pterygoid wings, easily invade the brain cavity. Because of this and related reasons, bacterial meningitis and encephalitis (more serious and higher risk of complications) was at one time much more common than viral meningitis around the world, as it still is in developing countries. The mortality rate was about 10-15%, but many times even people with resolved infections ended up with hearing loss, brain damage, and in children, learning disabilities.

ofpaperandponies:

I love the sphenoid complex. It’s gorgeous. It looks so much like a tattered but unbroken moth. 

Your sphenoidal sinuses are deep within your skull, behind the olfactory bulb and olfactory sensors in the very back of your nose. They sit around the pterygoid wings of the sphenoid bone, and the upper wall of the sinuses is the upper wings of the bone. These wings are the last bone structure before the brain, and though they’re strong, they’re thin and brittle, and can easily be damaged or destroyed by tumorous growths and head injuries.

Serious sinusitis before antibiotics could become deep-seated (it is usually treated before this happens these days), and if there are any cracks in the pterygoid wings, easily invade the brain cavity. Because of this and related reasons, bacterial meningitis and encephalitis (more serious and higher risk of complications) was at one time much more common than viral meningitis around the world, as it still is in developing countries. The mortality rate was about 10-15%, but many times even people with resolved infections ended up with hearing loss, brain damage, and in children, learning disabilities.

belatucadros: scary What happens to your innards when you put on one of the corsets in fashion during the Victorian and Edwardian eras.  They were a legitimate health problem until they fell out of fashion at the end of the Edwardian era.

belatucadros:

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What happens to your innards when you put on one of the corsets in fashion during the Victorian and Edwardian eras. 

They were a legitimate health problem until they fell out of fashion at the end of the Edwardian era.

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