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a fair cow
Would that be a Charollais, pfranz?
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"Main Entry: Cha·ro·lais
Pronunciation: "shar-&-'lA
Function: noun
Etymology: Charolais, district in eastern France
Date: 1893
: any of a breed of large white cattle developed in France and used primarily for beef and crossbreeding"
--MW
What's a 'fair cow'?
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What's a 'fair cow'?
That'd be "fair" as in "light complected", Dub'.
And "cow" as in "don't have a".
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Interesting interpretation there. Obviously, guessing from context is quite ithacal. But wrong, in this case. Something which is "a fair cow" is something which more than just slightly annoying. Fairly commonly used up in our part of the world, but.
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The word I was looking for is "micropsia". I'm currently reading a book on migraine, and it's documented as one of the visual hallucinations related to migraine.
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Thanks, Mark. That's a new term for me.
Wonder what the adjective is? Micropsial?
It also sounds like a small yield from the field.
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> I used to get both migraines and the tunnel vision that went with them.
I've never come across "tunnel vision" as a symptom of migraine. It is not unusual to get parts of your field of vision obscured, but I've never seen reference to this being just around the periphery of vision as you get in tunnel vision.
> The vision problem is not a pyschiatric issue, it's purely physical. Too many people complain of the same
> symptom for it to be a figment of anyone's overwrought imagination.
That's not in line with the current thinking on migraines. For some undetermined reason, my blood pressure has recently jumped up at about the same time as my migraine symptoms started to recur. However, the neurologist I was referred to was adamant that there wasn't a direct causal link. You should also beware of partitioning ailments into "psychicatric" vs "physical". It is possible for psychological problems to present with apparently physical symptoms.
> Many moons ago my tame quack believed that it had a lot to do with pressure on the optic centre in the
> brain which either constricted the signal from the eyes in some way or caused the brain to fail to process > the incoming data correctly.
Your "tame quack" needs to read more of the literature on migraines. Pressure on the optic centre of the brain doesn't present with these symptoms. My neurologist is sending me for an MRI, but it's to eliminate any underlying causes which may be confusing the diagnosis.
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Yeah. Well, you're probably reflecting the current current thinking. My doc, some twenty years ago was probably reflecting the current current thinking on the subject at that time. It'll be different next year. Roll the dice. Migraine is still migraine, and although there are some analgesics that take the worst of it away, they still don't seem to know exactly what causes them or how to prevent them.
It's not a problem for me any more, so I haven't been keeping up with the current current thinking on the subject over time.
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