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Elderly man with two soft hyperpigmented nodules on the forehead
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Shi'ite Muslim
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    Erratum in printed version[Top] [Nav]
       *The proper name for the face-down position assumed by Muslims during prayer is the "Sijdah" position. "Sijdah" means "to bow" [personal communication from V Khan, 1997].
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  • Children with chronic swellings at the center of the forehead may be headbangers. [101]
  • Children with acrodynia characteristically assume an Islamic-prayer-like position that has been called the "Salaam position," but this is also a misnomer as explained in the erratum above. Acrodynia is a rare manifestation of childhood mercury poisoning. [102]
  • Recent case of a 4 year old boy with acrodynia, the result of inhaling mercury vapors from the 17 gallons of latex paint drying on the walls of his home. The paint had 3 times the allowable amount of mercury. [103]
  • Practitioners of the Christian faiths may also bear physical consequences of prayer. "Clergyman's knee" is an infrapatellar bursitis (similar to housemaid's knee) and "genu genuflectorum" is a noninflammatory knee effusion resulting from chronic stress of the lateral meniscus. [104]
    Footnotes in Print Edition[Top] [Nav]
    (1) Prayer nodules.
  Vollum DI, Azadeh B.   Clin Exp Dermatol 1979 Mar;4(1):39-47.  Pubmed  Similars
    (2) 1985 Year Book of Dermatology.
  Sober AJ, Fitzpatrick TB (eds). Chicago: Year Book, 1985: 322-323.
    (3) Prayer nodules [letter].
  Monk BE.   Clin Exp Dermatol. 1982;7:225-226.
    (4) Prayer nodules.
  English JS, Fenton DA, et al.   Clin Exp Dermatol 1984 Jan;9(1):97-8.  Pubmed  Similars
    (-) La doleur dans le syndromes chroniques d'origine pancréatique.
  Leger L, Brunet M.   Presse Med. 1959;67:1543-1546.
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    101.The headbangers tumour.
  Sormann GW.   Br J Plast Surg 1982 Jan;35(1):72-4.  Pubmed+Abstract  Similars

More on prayer positions
    102.Syndromes of the Head and Neck. 2nd ed.
  Gorlin RJ, Pindborg JJ, Cohen MM (eds). New York: McGraw-Hill, 1976: 21-23.
    103.Mercury exposure from interior latex paint--Michigan.
  MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 1990 Mar 2;39(8):125-6.  Pubmed  Similars
    104.Genu genuflectorum revisited [letter].
  Griffiths WE.   N Engl J Med 1983 Sep 1;309(9):561.  Pubmed  Similars
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