Yannet, "A case of
mongolism in DZ female twins studied at 10 and then at 43 years of age," Acta Geneticae Medicae et Gemelloologiae, vol.
"It had been considered normal to use the term Mongol from the 1860s to 1960 when the World Health Organisation officially dropped all references to the term
mongolism.
Some dental manifestations of
mongolism. Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol 1961;14:664-76.
Absence of radiographic shoveling can't be used to exclude
Mongolism. Another trait of Mongolic populations is an extra-root on mandibular molars.
I recall once seeing a paper entitled 'Sarcoidosis in a mongol' and have yet to see a case or reports entitled 'Sarcoidosis without
mongolism' or '
Mongolism without sarcoidosis'.
(5) Brooks, D.N.; Wooley, A.; Kanjilal, D.; Hearing loss and middle ear disorders in patients with Down's syndrome (
Mongolism).
The Down's syndrome
mongolism affects one child of every 660 born in Britain
The title refers to the day Cixous' son dies, a Downs Syndrome baby (Cixous uses the older term
mongolism), but it also underlines a life lived, that of the German-Jewish Cixous family transplanted to Algeria--no longer German, never accepted by the French or Arabs, nowhere at home, always "passing by, in passance ...
It could be that the forbidden fruit, conceivably a generic term for other toxic materials or chemicals (e.g., alcohol taken by the pregnant mother) could have damaged the embryo or fetus, or a virus present on the fruit (such as the German measles virus) could have infected the growing embryo, or there might have been something sparking a genetic aberration such as Down's syndrome (earlier known as
Mongolism), or more likely a chromosomal aberration called the XYY Syndrome which, although it generally features normal individuals, sometimes presents as tall strong men with limited intelligence and social instability.
Metabolic studies in
mongolism: serum protein-bound iodine, cholesterol, and lipoprotein.
* Thirty chromosomal, metabolic and other congenital abnormalities, including Down's syndrome (
mongolism), cystic fibrosis and Tay-Sachs disease, can be detected before birth by sampling fetal cells from the amniotic fluid in which the fetus floats in the womb.
