The following are a few references to stories including a character who does not speak despite being physically able to. In the book Cut by Patricia McCormick, the main character, Callie, is an elective mute. In The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende, Clara Trueba is mute after witnessing her sisters molestation and autopsy. "She could not move until the first lights of dawn appeared. Only then did she slip back into her bed, feeling within her the silence of the entire world. Silence filled her utterly." In Hannibal Rising by Thomas Harris, Hannibal Lecter is mute after witnessing his sister killed and eaten. In the book Flying Solo, the character Rachel is mute for six months after a classmate dies. In The Piano, Ada is an elective mute. She chooses to learn to speak at the end of the film. In the 1993 movie, House of Cards, Sally Matthews chooses not to speak after her father dies. In the book Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, Lucy-B091 is mute after she is one of only two survivors from her unit of 300. In the movie The Prophet Kamilas daughter, Elmitra, is depicted as mute after the death of her father. In the 2014 video game Watch Dogs, Aiden Pearces nephew, Jackson, is electively mute after the death of his sister.
Mesh-free laparoscopic suture repair is an uncomplicated approach to small Spigelian hernias combined with the benefits of a closure without the anguish and cost associated with foreign material. Eponym
Adriaan van den Spiegel, born in Brussels, was an anatomist at the University of Padua during the 17th century. In 1619 he became a professor of surgery. Spiegel was the first to described this rare hernia in 1627. The history of the Spigelian hernia became acknowledged in 1645, twenty years after Spiegels death. In 1764, almost a century later, the Flemish anatomist, Josef Klinkosch was acknowledged for recognizing and describing a hernia located in the Spigelian fascia, and coined the term Spigelian hernia. Raveenthiran syndrome
Raveenthiran described a new syndrome in which Spigelian hernia and cryptorchidism (undescended testis) occur together. Some common complications of this distinct syndrome cryptorchidism are testicular torsion, and its link to testicular cancer. References
External links
Adriaan van den Spiegel at Who Named It? Laparoscopic Repair of Spigelian Hernia Medtube