1 Danlos syndromes symptoms and signs are joints that are more flexible than normal and loose skin that stretches away from the body.  The diagnosis of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome is based upon the clinical findings of the patient and the family history.
Metamorphosis is a biological process by which an animal physically develops after birth or hatching, involving a conspicuous and relatively abrupt change in the animal's form or structure through cell growth and differentiation.
Metamorphosis or transformation is a unifying theme amongst the episodes of the Metamorphoses. Ovid raises its significance explicitly in the opening lines of the poem: In nova fert animus mutatas dicere formas / corpora; (I intend to speak of forms changed into new entities;).