* In short, is the patient Mary Poppins sick, or is the chewing System damaged?
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;In short,
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* is the patient Mary Poppins sick, or is the chewing System damaged?
* Is it instead a 'System' disease considering the masticatory System in its entirety consisting of subsets such as receptors, peripheral and central nervous tissue, maxillary bones, teeth, tongue, skin, etc.,?
* Is it instead a 'System' disease considering the masticatory System in its entirety consisting of subsets such as receptors, peripheral and central nervous tissue, maxillary bones, teeth, tongue, skin, etc.,?
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* Or is it an 'organ' disease involving in this specific case the temporomandibular joint (TMJ)? These brief notes demonstrate how natural language's inaccuracies and peculiarities enter medicine through its syntactic and semantically underdeveloped form. We should deal with some of these peculiarities with concrete clinical examples.
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* Or is it an 'organ' disease involving in this specific case the temporomandibular joint (TMJ)?
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These brief notes demonstrate how the inaccuracies and peculiarities of natural language enter medicine through its syntactic and semantically underdeveloped form. We should deal with some of these peculiarities with concrete clinical examples.