Scafring following wounding is a major medical problem. In skin wounds or bums scarring often leads to adverse cosmesis and consequent psychological problems, adverse function particularly over joints and retardation of growth especially in children. Scarring in muscle adversely affects movement and can cause ankylosis. In abdominal and pelvic organs scarring can lead to life threatening strict...

The Gallo-Italic dialects widespread within central–eastern Sicily represent the result of medieval immigration settlers from southern Piedmont and Liguria, after Norman conquest island (1061–1091). As far as language spoken by these communities is concerned, an oddity arises: most their lexical syntactic features developed further through contact with neighboring varieties (such as, notably, S...