Intestinal worms may cause severe, life threatening infection, predominantly in children in tropical and subtropical areas where people often defecate on the ground: in rural parts of Africa, Middle East, South Asia, Indonesia and Central and South America.
Decorum is proper and polite behavior. If you let out a big belch at a fancy dinner party, you're not showing much decorum. This noun is from Latin decÅrus proper, becoming, handsome, from dÃ©cor beauty, grace, which is also the source of English dÃ©cor. The corresponding adjective is decorous, meaning well-behaved in a particular situation.. Both decorum and decorous are often used to describe behavior in a classroom or courtroom.
1. a regard for tradition and reverence for the classics, with an accompanying distrust of innovation. 2. a sense of literature as art--that is, as something artificed or artificial, made by craft; hence the value put on rules, conventions, decorum, the properties of received genres. 3. a concern for social reality, and the communal commonplaces of thought which hold it together. 4. a concern for nature--or the way things are (and should be). This relates back to the distrust of innovation and inherent conservatism of neoclassicism. The artistic rules of old, for instance, Pope describes as having been discovered, not devised and are Nature methodized; so too, Nature and Homer are the same (Essay on Criticism 88ff., 135).