Wordplay maps: AMERICAN SCRAMBLE-TOWNS #9-12

 

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MAR 15 (2022): POETS' CORNER, second angle [6]

This post is a continuation of a collection of verses as initiated on March 15, 2021 (first angle). 

previous poetic posts (Note that captions are available for poems displayed on slides in "Daily Illustrated Nonsense" as of March, 2024).

(first angle): addiction to limerick writing, authorly skill, blogosphere, bold faced/bald-faced, cans and can'ts (argumentatively), collabortion.

CURRENT CONTENTS (#2 -- March 15, 2022):

Creative writing

Depressed limericist

Doggerel (brief sagas)

Editorial balking

Editorial state: "Held"

(The poet's) Family

(for continuation, see the link below)

Authors' Note: 'Creative writing' is a term that has been applied to fiction in prose, but seems to have omitted from its purview fictional poetry accounts, such as those honored on this blog.  

   

 This verse bypasses the requirement at OEDILF for 'definition', in favor of the more reasonable targets of 'exemplification' and 'entertainment'. The author points out hesitatingly that 17 prior 'balk-verses' in OEDILF's data-base (as of 2022) altogether provide minimal definition of the many meanings of this puzzling word.

Authors' Note:

Held:  (at OEDILF ...) A state of workshopping selected by an author to shield their submission from discussion until further self-editing makes it suitable to return to the 'Tentative' state as an openb target for collegial comment. 

The Omnificent English Dictionary in Limerick Form is an online humor dictionary and related website whose contributors have been making their way for 20 years through the alphabet to define the meaning(s) of each word in the English language. Its highly polished verses are the reult of a collaborative editing process. In its 20 years of existence, it has progressed fromn A- to Ik-.  

OVERLAPPING THEMES:

To access more of this poetic cornucopia, you can proceed onward to the collection  'Poets' Corner #3' (February 2023, 4+ poems) ...

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MAR 10 (2022): Hematologist's monologue: TO CLOT, OR NOT TO CLOT [7]

SATIRE COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio (registered pseudonym) and Dr. GH, July 2019. Thoughts about blood-clotting disorders and their treatment have been incited by current health issues affecting family and friends. 
Many of today's verses are also under review at OEDILF.com, an online humor dictionary that has accumulated over 100,000 carefully edited limericks.  Links to other medically-related posts here at "Edifying Nonsense" are given at the bottom of this post.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:

CURRENT CONTENTS

Coagulation disorders (executive summary)

The coagulation cascade

Deep vein thrombosis (Virchow's triad)

Pulmonary embolism

Anti-coagulants

DETAILED STATEMENT

Authors' Note: The most common complication of internal bleeding in hemophilic patients is hemarthrosis, bleeding into joints, that may be unprovoked, yet result in significant disability.

Earlier versions of replacement therapy to provide for missing blood proteins with human blood-bank products has been discussed previously. Current treatment involves a genetically engineered  material derived from hamster cells, superior in not provoking antibodies that limit its effectiveness.  

Learn more about hemophilia and its current treatment with hamster-derived biosynthetic proteins at Wikipedia.

Authors' Note:

stasis: an absence of flow, or markedly reduced flow

deep venous thrombosis (DVT): a condition in which clots form in the deep veins, usually of the calves; the disorder often produces symptoms, but may be silent

The above verse conjures studies of factors in causation of DVT more than a century ago by Rudolf Virchow (FEER-koh), the famed German pathologist, that eventually resulted in the concept 'Virchow's triad'. The modern triad includes the elements of venous stasis, increased coagulability of the blood, and damage to the local endothelium (lining of the blood vessels).

 

OVERLAPPING THEMES

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