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A Field Guide to Joint Disease in Archaeology
The Definition of Joint Disease The Palaeopathological Classification of Disease Osteophytes Osteoarthritis Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal Hyperostosis (DISH) Rheumatoid Arthritis Gout Infections…
DISH and the monastic way of life
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The pathology and aetiology of DISH seems to be related to obesity and type II diabetes and is probably a multisystem hormonal disorder, which would permit valid inter-study comparisons.
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Counting the Dead: The Epidemiology of Skeletal Populations.
The development and nature of palaeopathology the nature of sample the question of diagnoses measures of disease frequency comparing prevalences analytical epidemiology a guide to best practice a…
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DNA from Mycobacterium tuberculosis Identified in Mediaeval Human Skeletal Remains Using Polymerase Chain Reaction
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Findings corroborate the use of PCR as an aid in the study of infectious disease in ancient bone samples and stress the importance of assessing native DNA survival.
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"Further studies ...'
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Arthropathies in palaeopathology: The basis of classification according to most probable cause
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DISH at Merton Priory: evidence for a "new" occupational disease?
  • T. Waldron
  • Medicine, Psychology
    British medical journal
  • 21 December 1985
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Properly explained and perhaps supported by posters bearing photographic examples, the concept of smoker's face might be helpful in antismoking.
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An epidemiologic study of sacroiliac fusion in some human skeletal remains.
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There was a highly significant association between sacroiliac fusion and the phenomenon that is referred to as "bone forming" and this association persisted when allowance had been made for potential confounding factors such as DISH, osteoarthritis of the spine, and age.
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An examination of skulls from two British sites for possible evidence of scurvy
Skulls and mandibles from the Romano-British site of Poundbury, Dorset and a medieval site at Abingdon in Oxfordshire were examined for porosity which has been considered to be indicative of the…
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Changes in the distribution of osteoarthritis over historical time
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Data presented indicate that patellofemoral disease is about twice as common as tibio-femoral Disease in both medieval and post-medieval periods and that lateral compartment disease is almost asCommon as medial compartment disease.
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