Babies can smell like maple syrup, ripe cheese or even fish, rancid butter and several other things: Fleisher GR, Ludwig S (eds). Textbook of Pediatric Emergency Medicine. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 6th edition, page 405, 2010 These babies and others that smell like food may have a serious inborn error of metabolism. BONUS: For the hardcore
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The cottage loaf sign, medically speaking
Panel A ‘Cottage loaf’, ‘snowman’ or ‘figure of 8’ heart shape due to total anomalous pulmonary venous drainage, image reproduced with kind permission of the Images in Pediatric Cardiology journal. Panel B Outline of cottage loaf. Panel C Cottage loaf (a rustic traditional English loaf of bread made with yeast and white flour) consisting of […]
Faces that look like dishes
Kitchen utensils are not infrequent medical metaphors. When some people look at other people’s facies, they see dishes – the dishes used for dining. From as early as the 1950s faces like dishes were already in the medical literature: “The nasomaxillary epithelial inlay for dish face deformity. Converse JM, Jeffreys FE. J Oral Surg (Chic), 1951 9(3):183-7.” […]
Kitchen utensils as medical metaphors
Little fork – Fourchette In medicine, it’s not only food and drink that are used as analogies. Kitchen utensils also are part of the banquet – an example on this improbable blog was the tumbler test. Other kitchen ware includes: Fourchette – little fork (very popular post) Acetabulum – bowl Dinner-fork deformity Spoon-shaped nails BONUS. […]