Word: sacrality
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...tender way he discussed his own personal troubles this morning is testament to his intellectual honesty. He says he's committed to repairing his marriage and won't violate the sacral bed. I believe...
Part of the power of Ingres's art lay in his ability to invest figures with a dignity and a power that verged on the sacral. He was one of the last artists to whom the rhetoric of grandeur seemed not only possible but desirable. Of course it had to be for a myth painter doing an Apotheosis of Homer. But Ingres brought it into portraiture, most notoriously with his over-the-top portrait of Napoleon (1806) in his imperial coronation robes, as frontal and opulent as a Byzantine god. So weird was this attempt at deification that even David...
...dinosaur with] hypertrophy of both the premaxilla and the anterior ramus of the maxilla...and has prominent epipophyses for muscle attachments. The neural spines increase in height rapidly in the middorsal vertebrae, forming a low median sail that is deepest over the sacral vertebrae." --Science
...wound in his sacral area, called a decubitus, began to open. It went so deep, it opened to the bone: "You could go put your hand inside it." His doctors wanted to operate, which would have required grafting skin to the wound, but he asked them not to. He had to agree to stay in bed for eight days without moving. The view he had out his window was of a brick wall. He could see only the wall, but he imagined that above the wall was a roof, and above that a clean sky. "I had this fantasy about...
...immunological system, the virus retreats. In oral herpes, which is generally caused by herpes simplex Type 1, it travels through nerve fibers into the trigeminal ganglia, a group of nerve cells located near the brain. In genital herpes, usually caused by Type 2, the virus withdraws to the sacral ganglia, nerve cell clusters near the spinal cord. Lodged in the nerve cells, the herpes simplex virus is beyond the reach of the body's immune system and enters a latent stage. This stage may last forever, or it may be broken when the virus reawakens and reinfects the original site...