Median Nerve Injury from the Eye of an Artist: Gladiators

dc.authorid Hakan, Tayfun/0000-0003-1444-7076
dc.authorid Hakan, Tayfun/0000-0003-1444-7076
dc.authorscopusid 6602351757
dc.authorwosid Hakan, Tayfun/P-8626-2015
dc.authorwosid Hakan, Tayfun/O-9979-2019
dc.contributor.author Hakan, Tayfun
dc.date.accessioned 2024-05-25T11:41:07Z
dc.date.available 2024-05-25T11:41:07Z
dc.date.issued 2019
dc.department Okan University en_US
dc.department-temp [Hakan, Tayfun] Istanbul Okan Univ, Vocat Sch Hlth Serv, Div Operating Room Serv, Istanbul, Turkey en_US
dc.description Hakan, Tayfun/0000-0003-1444-7076; Hakan, Tayfun/0000-0003-1444-7076 en_US
dc.description.abstract Artists use their work to help us understand the universe. With their creations, we can rest our souls, find some solutions to problems, and even explore new dimensions. A 19th-century artist, Gerome, has depicted a gesture used to ask for mercy as a benediction sign in two of his works of art dealing with gladiatorial fighting. A warrior defeated in a gladiator combat is well known to ask for mercy with the extended index finger and fist. A benediction gesture by a gladiator after combat could be due to an acute nerve injury. At the sources that inspired the artist, the mercy gesture may have evolved into the benediction sign for an unknown reason. It is probable that a warrior cannot accurately form the mercy gesture following a peripheral nerve injury during combat. While his index finger was extended, the other fingers could not flex in the strict sense of making a fist due to traumatic median nerve injury. en_US
dc.identifier.citationcount 2
dc.identifier.doi 10.5137/1019-5149.JTN.25447-18.1
dc.identifier.endpage 463 en_US
dc.identifier.issn 1019-5149
dc.identifier.issue 4 en_US
dc.identifier.pmid 30829383
dc.identifier.scopus 2-s2.0-85068924108
dc.identifier.scopusquality Q3
dc.identifier.startpage 459 en_US
dc.identifier.trdizinid 356069
dc.identifier.uri https://doi.org/10.5137/1019-5149.JTN.25447-18.1
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14517/1480
dc.identifier.volume 29 en_US
dc.identifier.wos WOS:000473763100001
dc.identifier.wosquality Q4
dc.language.iso en
dc.publisher Turkish Neurosurgical Soc en_US
dc.relation.publicationcategory Makale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı en_US
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess en_US
dc.scopus.citedbyCount 2
dc.subject Art en_US
dc.subject Benediction sign en_US
dc.subject Gladiator en_US
dc.subject Hand deformity en_US
dc.subject Median nerve en_US
dc.subject Medicine en_US
dc.subject Nerve injury en_US
dc.title Median Nerve Injury from the Eye of an Artist: Gladiators en_US
dc.type Article en_US
dc.wos.citedbyCount 2

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