This short historical note dates the earliest ethnomedical reference to koro back to the 1840s (about a half-century earlier than universally presumed), and the earliest ethnopsychiatric reference to 1883 (over a decade earlier than universally presumed).
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Dynamic Computed Tomography (CT) emerges as a pivotal imaging modality for the assessment of knee joint kinematics. However, integrating dynamic CT into clinical practice necessitates a thorough understanding of healthy knee kinematics, as large variation in kinematics has been described within healthy populations. Therefore, this study aims to identify and describe healthy phenotypes with homogenous knee kinematics using a clustering approach.
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