Poems by Cecily Nicholson

Poems structured by integer sequences

Mystic Poems, Poems of Enlightment

POEMS syndrome.

POEMS syndrome is a rare paraneoplastic syndrome secondary to a plasma cell dyscrasia. Recognition of the complex of a combination of peripheral neuropathy, organomegaly, endocrinopathy, monoclonal plasmaproliferative disorder, skin changes, papilledema, extravascular volume overload (peripheral edema, pleural effusions, ascites), sclerotic bone lesions, thrombocytosis, Castleman disease is the...

POEMS syndrome.

POEMS syndrome is the syndrome of Polyneuropathy, Organomegaly, Endocrinopathy, Monoclonal protein and typical Skin changes. A 65-year-old lady presented with the 2-day-history of inability to walk, 4-month-history of progressive worsening of muscle weakness of both lower limbs and 1-year-history of progressive worsening of bilateral numbness of lower limbs. Nerve conduction study revealed gene...

The Structure of Actin-rich Filaments of Muscles According to X-ray Diffraction* by Cecily

In the accompanying paper 1 we have described the structure of paramyosin in molluscan muscles. A second type of fibrous muscle component is possibly of greater significance, since it has been found in all muscles thus far examined, in smooth and striated varieties from vertebrate and invertebrate animals (Schmitt, Bear, Hall, and Jakus, 1947). When first discovered by means of x-ray diffractio...