Example sentences for: lytico-bodig

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  • The Island of the Colorblind , which explores both disease--achromatopsia (color-blindness) and lytico-bodig (a disorder similar to Parkinson's)--and Micronesia, is being dismissed as half botanical treatise, half travelogue.

  • The cases in question both occur in Micronesia: a concentration of congenital achromatopsia on Pingelap, one of the Caroline Islands; and the occurrence among a stratum of the population of Guam of a disease called lytico-bodig, which can take forms resembling Parkinson's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ("Lou Gehrig's disease"), or Alzheimer's disease--or two or all three in combination.

  • The origins of lytico-bodig on Guam are still mysterious (as is the fact that, apparently, no one born after 1950 or so has been afflicted); there are many theories afloat, one of them involving the culinary use of the fruit of the cycad, a genus of fernlike shrub that is among the oldest forms of life on the planet.


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