Talk:Single transverse palmar crease
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[edit] Removed content
I removed the following unsourced statements from the article by 24.125.49.251 as they refer to living people: --apers0n 06:00, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
- Famous people with simian/transverse creases: Tony Blair (two hands - do a google IMAGE search for 'tony blair waves' to see his), three out of the last four Japanese Prime Ministers, Thom Yorke of Radiohead, John Steinbeck, Henry Miller, Seji Osawa, Nikita Kruschev, Rasputin
[edit] Preferred term?
Isn't single transverse palmar crease preferred to the rather pejorative term simian crease? I tend to do a poor job gauging whether a term is objectionable or not, so correct me if I'm wrong. But if I'm right, the redirect should go in the other direction. Cheers, David Iberri (talk) 02:28, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
- I'm not sure it's pejorative; I heard the term "simian crease" straight from the pediatrician's mouth, and I would expect that they'd be most up-to-date on the preferred terms. 198.99.123.63 16:23, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
- Just because a physician uses it doesn't mean it's not pejorative. Lots of docs use pejorative terms out of ignorance, force of habit, historical sake, etc. For example, "cretinism" (which originally meant "Christ-like", but has since acquired status as a pejorative term because of its use in everday speech) gets thrown about pretty freely by many practitioners. I've heard "retard" used far too often by physicians as well. The point is you can't necessarily count on docs to avoid pejoratives altogether. Maybe "simian crease" doesn't fall into that category (like I said I'm often a poor judge of such things), but I get mildly offended by it and can imagine that for example parents of children with Down syndrome would potentially be offended if they thought their children were being compared to an inferior species. (I recognize that humans are simians, but "simian" conjures up an image of monkeys and non-human apes.) Just throwing that out there. --David Iberri (talk) 22:55, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Photograph
It would very much help the clarity of this article, to include a photograph, either of a the single transverse palmar crease alone or placed in comparison to a double creased hand. 128.192.196.200 04:44, 5 December 2006 (UTC) I was thinking the same thing ... dougmc 19:43, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
- I was going to add my own picture, but I see there's already an image on the server. I don't know why it wasn't added originally. If there's some problem, remove it, and I'll put an original image. Phildonnia 01:13, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
