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Recently, doctors in the UK surgically removed a 14cm-long 'dragon horn' from a man's lower back. The 50-year-old patient reported that it had been growing for at least three years.
The doctors determined that the 'gigantic' skin growth was a cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (cSCC)—a type of skin cancer that causes growing, scaly bumps on the top layer of skin.
While SCC is a very common type of skin cancer, the man's case is rare, the doctors report in the journal BMJ Case Reports this week. Such lesions are typically caught much earlier. But in this case, doctors found 'an extremely large well-differentiated SCC that was neglected by a patient,' even though he was 'living in a developed country with access to free healthcare.'
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'This highlights that despite current public skin cancer awareness and rigorous healthcare measures, cases like this can still arise and slip through the net,' they conclude.
Cases of SCC are typically seen in those with light skin, who have a lot of sun exposure, are older, have a weakened immune system, or have had certain chemical exposures, such as arsenic.
In this case, the man was a light-skinned manual laborer, but he reported no other clear risk factors. He had no significant sun exposure, no personal or family history of skin cancers, and was not immunosuppressed. Also unusual, his lymph nodes weren't swollen—a common, nonspecific sign that the body is fighting off an infection or disease, such as skin cancer.
There was only 'an enormous cutaneous horn on the lower back measuring 140×60×55mm,' the doctors report.
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To treat the woefully neglected cancer, doctors surgically removed the horn, taking out several millimeters of peripheral tissue to ensure no cancer was left behind. Tests indicated that they caught it all, and the doctors patched the resulting gaping wound on the man's back with skin from his thigh.
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Horseshoe casino lake charles. While the surgery seems to have been a success, the doctors report that SCC should be diagnosed and treated earlier, 'before becoming ‘dragon horns.''
BMJ Case Reports, 2020. DOI: 10.1136/bcr-2019-233305 (About DOIs).
Qiulong (simplified Chinese: 虬龙; traditional Chinese: 虯龍; pinyin: qíulóng; Wade–Giles: ch'iu-lung; lit. 'curling dragon') or qiu was a Chinese dragon that is contradictorily defined as 'horned dragon' and 'hornless dragon'.
Name[edit]
This Chinese dragon name can be pronounced qiu or jiu and written 虯 or 虬.
Characters[edit]
Dragon Horns Headband
The variant Chinese characters for the qiu or jiu dragon are 虯 and 虬, which combine the 'insect radical' 虫 with phonetics of jiu丩 'connect' and yin乚 'hidden'. This 虫 radical is typically used in Chinese characters for insects, worms, reptiles, and dragons (e.g., shen蜃, jiao蛟, and hong虹). Compare the word jiu糾 or 糺 'twist; entangle; unite' that is written with the 'silk radical' 絲 and the same alternate phonetics as qiu虯 or 虬.
Qiu虬 or 虯 is also an uncommon Chinese surname. For example, Qiuranke Zhuan 虯髯客傳 'The Legend of the Curly-whiskered Guest' is a story by the Tang Dynasty writer Du Guangting杜光庭 (850–933 CE), and Qiu Zhong 虬仲 was the courtesy name of the Qing Dynasty painter Li Fangying.
In Japanese, the kanji 'Chinese characters' 虬 or 虯 are sometimes used for the mizuchi蛟 'river dragon'.
Etymologies[edit]
Sinological linguists have proposed several etymologies for the qiu or jiu虯 dragon.
Bernhard Karlgren (1957:274) reconstructed Old Chinese pronunciations of qiu < *g'yŏg or jiu < *kyŏg for 虯 'horned dragon' and 觓 'horn-shaped; long and curved'. This latter word combines the 'horn radical' 角 and 虯's jiu丩 phonetic.
Carr (1990:151-2) follows Karlgren's reconstructions and suggests qiu < *g'yŏg or jiu < *kyŏg虯 is 'part of a 'twist; coil; wrap' word family' that includes:
- qiu < *g'yôg觩 'long and curved; curled up horn'
- jiu < *klyŏg樛 'curving branch; twist'
- miu < *mlyŏg or jiu < *klyŏg繆 'bind; wind around; wrap; twist'
- liu < *glyôg or lu < *glyôk勠 'join forces; unite'
- jiao < *klôg膠 'glue; unite'
- liao < *glyôg摎 'tie around; strangle'
This 'twisting; coiling' etymology can explain both the meanings 'horned dragon; twisted horns' and 'curling; wriggling' below.
Schuessler (2007:435) reconstructs Old Chinese qiu < *giu or jiu < *kiu for 觓 or 觩 'horn-shaped; long and curved' and 虯 'horned dragon', and cites Coblin's (1986:130) comparison of 'horned dragon' with Written Tibetanklu 'Nāga, serpent spirit'. Schuessler compares jiu < *kiuʔ糾 'to twist, plait' and concludes the 'most likely etymology is 'twisting, wriggling'.
Cases of SCC are typically seen in those with light skin, who have a lot of sun exposure, are older, have a weakened immune system, or have had certain chemical exposures, such as arsenic.
In this case, the man was a light-skinned manual laborer, but he reported no other clear risk factors. He had no significant sun exposure, no personal or family history of skin cancers, and was not immunosuppressed. Also unusual, his lymph nodes weren't swollen—a common, nonspecific sign that the body is fighting off an infection or disease, such as skin cancer.
There was only 'an enormous cutaneous horn on the lower back measuring 140×60×55mm,' the doctors report.
Dragon With Horns Drawings
To treat the woefully neglected cancer, doctors surgically removed the horn, taking out several millimeters of peripheral tissue to ensure no cancer was left behind. Tests indicated that they caught it all, and the doctors patched the resulting gaping wound on the man's back with skin from his thigh.
Dragon With Horns Gif
Horseshoe casino lake charles. While the surgery seems to have been a success, the doctors report that SCC should be diagnosed and treated earlier, 'before becoming ‘dragon horns.''
BMJ Case Reports, 2020. DOI: 10.1136/bcr-2019-233305 (About DOIs).
Qiulong (simplified Chinese: 虬龙; traditional Chinese: 虯龍; pinyin: qíulóng; Wade–Giles: ch'iu-lung; lit. 'curling dragon') or qiu was a Chinese dragon that is contradictorily defined as 'horned dragon' and 'hornless dragon'.
Name[edit]
This Chinese dragon name can be pronounced qiu or jiu and written 虯 or 虬.
Characters[edit]
Dragon Horns Headband
The variant Chinese characters for the qiu or jiu dragon are 虯 and 虬, which combine the 'insect radical' 虫 with phonetics of jiu丩 'connect' and yin乚 'hidden'. This 虫 radical is typically used in Chinese characters for insects, worms, reptiles, and dragons (e.g., shen蜃, jiao蛟, and hong虹). Compare the word jiu糾 or 糺 'twist; entangle; unite' that is written with the 'silk radical' 絲 and the same alternate phonetics as qiu虯 or 虬.
Qiu虬 or 虯 is also an uncommon Chinese surname. For example, Qiuranke Zhuan 虯髯客傳 'The Legend of the Curly-whiskered Guest' is a story by the Tang Dynasty writer Du Guangting杜光庭 (850–933 CE), and Qiu Zhong 虬仲 was the courtesy name of the Qing Dynasty painter Li Fangying.
In Japanese, the kanji 'Chinese characters' 虬 or 虯 are sometimes used for the mizuchi蛟 'river dragon'.
Etymologies[edit]
Sinological linguists have proposed several etymologies for the qiu or jiu虯 dragon.
Bernhard Karlgren (1957:274) reconstructed Old Chinese pronunciations of qiu < *g'yŏg or jiu < *kyŏg for 虯 'horned dragon' and 觓 'horn-shaped; long and curved'. This latter word combines the 'horn radical' 角 and 虯's jiu丩 phonetic.
Carr (1990:151-2) follows Karlgren's reconstructions and suggests qiu < *g'yŏg or jiu < *kyŏg虯 is 'part of a 'twist; coil; wrap' word family' that includes:
- qiu < *g'yôg觩 'long and curved; curled up horn'
- jiu < *klyŏg樛 'curving branch; twist'
- miu < *mlyŏg or jiu < *klyŏg繆 'bind; wind around; wrap; twist'
- liu < *glyôg or lu < *glyôk勠 'join forces; unite'
- jiao < *klôg膠 'glue; unite'
- liao < *glyôg摎 'tie around; strangle'
This 'twisting; coiling' etymology can explain both the meanings 'horned dragon; twisted horns' and 'curling; wriggling' below.
Schuessler (2007:435) reconstructs Old Chinese qiu < *giu or jiu < *kiu for 觓 or 觩 'horn-shaped; long and curved' and 虯 'horned dragon', and cites Coblin's (1986:130) comparison of 'horned dragon' with Written Tibetanklu 'Nāga, serpent spirit'. Schuessler compares jiu < *kiuʔ糾 'to twist, plait' and concludes the 'most likely etymology is 'twisting, wriggling'.
Meanings[edit]
Chinese dictionaries give three qiu虯 or 虬 meanings: 'dragon without horns ', 'dragon with horns', and 'curling; coiling'.
Hornless dragon[edit]
Several Chinese classic texts and commentaries from the Han Dynasty identified qiu虯 as a 'hornless dragon; dragon without horns', which is interpreted as 'young dragon; immature dragon'.
The (2nd century BCE) Chuci uses qiu虬 seven times, which is more frequently than any other classical text. The standard Sibu Beiyao 四部備要 edition gives the character as 虬 instead of 虯. Qiu is a dragon name in four contexts. The first uses yuqiu玉虬 'jade hornless-dragon'; (離騷, tr. Hawkes 1985:73) 'I yoked a team of jade dragons to a phoenix-figured car, And waited for the wind to come, to soar up on my journey.' The second uses qiulong虬龍 'hornless dragon'; (天問, tr. Hawkes 1985:128) 'Where are the hornless dragons which carry bears on their backs for sport?' In both contexts, commentary of Wang Yi 王逸 (d. 158 CE) says qiu means 'hornless dragon' and long means 'horned dragon'. The third uses qingqiu青虬 'green dragon' referring to the legendary Shun as Chong Hua 重華; (涉江, tr. Hawkes 1985:160) 'With a team of azure dragons, white serpents in the traces, I rode with Chong Hua in the Garden of Jasper.' Wang notes qiu and chi are types of long 'dragons'. The fourth uses qiu虬 alone; (通路, tr. Hawkes 1985:271) 'With team of dragons I mount the heavens, In ivory chariot borne aloft.'
The (121 CE) Shuowen Jiezi dictionary gives inconsistent definitions of qiu虯. Some early editions define 龍無角者 'a dragon without horns', while later editions define 龍子有角者 'a young dragon with horns'. Carr (1990:93-4) notes the discrepancy of three Shuowen definitions for 'hornless dragon': qiu虯, jiao蛟, and chi螭. The Shuowen Jiezi scholar Zhu Junsheng 朱駿聲 (1788–1834 CE) explains that male long龍 'dragons' have horns and female ones do not, and among young dragons, jiao {{lang|zh-hant|蛟 has one horn, qiu虯 has two, and chi螭 is hornless.
A few later sources, such as the (c. 1011 CE) Guangyunrime dictionary, concur with early Shuowen Jiezi editions and define qiu虯 as 'hornless dragon', but most dictionaries define a contrast set between qiu虯 'horned dragon' and chi螭 'hornless dragon'.
Horned dragon[edit]
The (c. 139 BCE) Huainanzi 'Peering into the Obscure' chapter (6) mentions qingqiu青虯 'green horned-dragon' twice. First, 'The Fable of the Dragons and the Mud-Eels' uses it with chichi赤螭 'red hornless-dragon' (tr. Le Blanc 1987:144); 'When the red hornless dragon and the green horned dragon roamed the land of Chi 冀, the sky was limpid and the earth undisturbed.' The commentary of Gao Yu 高淯 (fl. 205 CE) notes qingqiu and chichi are types of long龍 'dragons', but without mentioning horns. Second, a description of Fu Xi and Nüwa, who are represented as having dragon tails, uses qingqiu with yinglong應龍 'winged dragon' (tr. Le Blanc 1987:161-2); 'They rode the thunder chariot, using winged dragons as the inner pair and green dragons as the outer pair.'
The (c. 100 BCE) Shiji 'Records of the Grand Historian' biography of Sima Xiangru quotes his fu賦 poem entitled Zixu子虛 'Sir Fantasy'. Like the Huaiananzi, it contrasts qingqiu青虯 'green horned-dragon' with chichi赤螭 'red hornless-dragon', which Watson (1993:2:309, 312) translates 'horned dragon' and 'hornless dragon'.
Ge Hong's (4th century CE) Baopuzi抱朴子 (外篇, tr. Visser 1913:73-4) has four references. It mentions: jiu虬 'As to the flying to the sky of the k'iu of the pools, this is his union with the clouds', shenjiu神虬 'divine horned-dragon' 'If a pond inhabited by fishes and gavials is drained off, the divine k'iu go away', and qingjiu青虬 'green horned-dragon' 'The ts'ui k'iu (kingfisher-k'iu) has no wings and yet flies upwards to the sky', 'Place the shape (i.e. an image of this dragon) in a tray, and the kingfisher-k'iu (shall) descend in a dark vapoury haze'.
The (c. 230 CE) Guangya dictionary defines qiu虯 (written with a rare 黽 'frog'-radical graphic variant) as 'horned dragon' and chi螭 as 'hornless dragon'. This semantic contrast is repeated in later dictionaries such as the (997 CE) Longkan Shoujian and the (c. 1080 CE) Piya, which says (tr. Visser 1913:73) differentiates: 'If a dragon has scales, he is called kiao-lung (蛟龍); if wings, ying-lung (應龍); if a horn, k'iu-lung (虬龍); and if he has no horn, he is called ch'i-lung (螭龍).'
In traditional Chinese art, dragons are commonly represented with two horns. According to the (2nd century CE) Qian fu lun (tr. Visser 1913:70), the dragon's 'horns resemble those of a stag'. The (1578 CE) Bencao Gangmumateria medica prescribes longjue龍角 'dragon horn' (tr. Read 1934:9, 'fossilized horns of the Chalicotherium sinense'), 'For convulsions, fevers, diarrhea with fever and hardened belly. Taken continuously it lightens the body, enlightens the soul and prolongs life.'
Curling[edit]
Qiu can mean 'curling; twisting; coiling; wriggling; writhing' in Chinese compounds. For instance:
- qiupan虬蟠 'curled up like a dragon; curling and twisting (esp. tree roots)'
- jiaoqiu蛟虬 'coil like a dragon'
- qiuxu虬鬚 'curly beard; curly mustache'
- qiuran虯髯 'curly whiskers'
Besides the four 'hornless dragon' examples above, three Chuci contexts use qiu in words describing dragons 'coiling; wriggling; writhing'. Two use youqiu蚴虬 to describe the canglong蒼龍Azure Dragon constellation; (惜誓/'Sorrow for Troth Betrayed', cf. qingqiu青虯 'green horned-dragon' above, tr. Hawkes 1985:240) 'I rode in the ivory chariot of the Great Unity: The coiling Green Dragon ran in the left-hand traces; The White Tiger made the right hand of my team' (遠逝, tr. Hawkes 1985:290), 'To hang at my girdle the coiling Green Dragon, To wear at my belt the sinuous rainbow serpent.' One uses liuqiu蟉虬 with chi螭 'hornless dragon' (遠遊, tr. Hawkes 1985:198); 'They lined water monsters up to join them in the dance: How their bodies coiled and writhed in undulating motion!'
Mythic parallels[edit]
The ancient Chinese jiu虯 'horned dragon' is analogous with the Mountain Horned Dragon lizard and several legendary creatures in Comparative mythology.
Assuming trans-cultural diffusion, MacKenzie (1923:54) suggests that the Chinese 'horned-dragon, or horned-serpent' derives from the Egyptian Osiris 'water-serpent'. The Chinese Hui people have a myth (Li and Luckert 1994:104) about a silver-horned dragon that controls rainfall.
In Babylonian mythology, the deity Marduk supposedly rode a horned dragon when he defeated Tiamat, and it became his emblem. In Persian mythology, the hero Garshasp killed an Aži Sruvara 'horned dragon'. In Greek mythology, the two-headed Amphisbaena dragon was represented with horns.
References[edit]
- ^Werner, E. T. C. (1922). Myths & Legends of China. New York: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd. Retrieved 2007-03-14. (Project Gutenberg eText 15250)
- Carr, Michael. 1990. 'Chinese Dragon Names', Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 13.2:87–189.
- Coblin, W. South. 1986. A Sinologist's Handlist of Sino-Tibetan Lexical Comparisons. Nettetal.
- Hawkes, David, tr. 1985. The Songs of the South: An Anthology of Ancient Chinese Poems by Qu Yuan and Other Poets. Penguin.
- Karlgren, Bernhard. 1957. Grammata Serica Recensa. Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities.
- Le Blanc, Charles. 1985. Huai-nan Tzu: Philosophical Synthesis in Early Han Thought: The Idea of Resonance (Kan-Ying) With a Translation and Analysis of Chapter Six. Hong Kong University Press.
- Li Shujiang and Karl W. Luckert. 1994. Mythology and Folklore of the Hui, a Muslim Chinese People. SUNY Press.
- Mackenzie, Donald A. 1923. Myths of China and Japan. Gresham.
- Read, Bernard E. 1934. 'Chinese Materia Medica VII; Dragons and Snakes,' Peking Natural History Bulletin 8.4:279–362.
- Schuessler, Axel. 2007. ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese. University of Hawaii Press.
- Visser, Marinus Willern de. 1913. The Dragon in China and Japan. J. Müller.
- Watson, Burton, tr. 1993. Records of the Grand Historian, by Sima Qian. Columbia University Press.
External links[edit]
- 虯 entry, Chinese Etymology
- 虯 and 虬 entry page, 1716 CE Kangxi Dictionary
