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From: "Dunn Matthew Dr. ACCIDENT & EMERGENCY - SwarkHosp-TR"
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Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 5:11 PM
Subject: Re: X-rays
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Rowley Cottingham [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>
> > I ask because there is indeed a good physiological reason for
> > asking. The human eye is indeed much more sensitive to
> > horizontal lines
> > than vertical ones. This is probably atavistic. We are
> > descended (it seems) from savannah-dwelling bipeds, who were
> > only rarely tree
> > climbers, unlike the chimpanzee, orang-utan or lemur families
> > of the great apes who remained mostly arboreal.
>
> Does this mean that great apes are more sensitvie to vertical lines? Out
of
> interest, has anyone ever seen an orthopaedic surgeon turning an x-ray on
> its side?
>
> Matt Dunn
LOL, is uppose it makes a difference to comparisions with tradesmen ( i.e.
well it's just glorified joinery ...) ;-)
Martyn
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