Dextroscoliosis is one form of scoliosis, a medical condition in which the patient suffers from curvature of the spine. If the spine curves to the right, this is known as dextroscoliosis, as opposed to levoscoliosis, which is a left curvature. These curvatures are s-shaped or c-shaped and are viewed from the front or back. They differ from the normal curving of the vertebrae seen from the side view of the patient.
For anorexia the cost of illness amounts to approximately 195 million euros (73 direct costs and 122 mortality costs, for bulimia it comes to around 124 million euros (12 direct costs and 112 mortality costs). The annual cost per anorexia and bulimia patient is approximately 5,300 and 1,300 euros, respectively. This cost-of-illness analysis underlines the significance of indirect costs due to premature death, but also highlights the extremely cost-intensive treatment.
Amboyna burl is a particularly expensive type of burl, costing $300.00 b/f to $72.00 per pound, much more than bigleaf maple burl, for example.It comes from padauk trees (Pterocarpus spp.) of Southeast Asia. burl results from a tree undergoing some form of stress. It may be caused by an injury, virus or fungus. Most burls grow beneath the ground, attached to the roots as a type of malignancy that is generally not discovered until the tree dies or falls over.