Thursday, October 28, 2010

Oblique in meaning

Babies with asymmetrical heads …

As I read this (in the British Medical Journal) I was seized with horror at the very idea of such an alarming condition of which I had never previously heard.

Whether or not it is grammatically correct, I think (hope) I should have written, had I had a need to report on such a thing, of a baby with an asymmetrical head.



Just to make it clear that it was plagiocephaly, not polycephaly, whereof I spoke.

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