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An artist's impression of Humpty Dumpty showing 'moon-like face', facial plethora, central obesity and 'stick-like legs' (thin extremities) illustrating the clinical features of Cushing syndrome
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Nursery rhymes represent the simplest and most innocent form of performance art. 'Humpty-Dumpty' is a popular character of a nursery rhyme. This character denotes a humanized egg. In medicine, the term 'Humpty-Dumpty syndrome' has been used in many specialities. In neurology, “Humpty-Dumpty” syndrome is used to denote prosopagnosia and in rehabilit...
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... illustration most likely comes from the work of John Tenniel who drew the character for the first time for Lewis-Carroll's book. [3] Some others have shown him to be a short and obese person with a "moon-like face" [ Figure 1]. ...
