Medusas live across many regions and can resemble humans of any ethnicity12or gender.34In theInner Sea region, they can resemble any major human ethnicity common inAvistanandGarund.12 Habitat and society Medusas often travel widely in pursuit of powerful forms ofmagicor secret knowledge, but du...
A single medusa is produced by the metamorphosis of a polyp, but metamorphosis mainly occurs in the apical regions of the polyp, such as the formation of arms, gastric filaments, gonads, and adradial tentacular clusters (Miranda et al., 2017). Because the polyp remains attached to the ...
In Paris, she teamed up with thief Paul Dumas, learning about human society as a criminal. But when she rebuffed his romantic advances, he framed her for the crimes they committed together. Avoiding Europe's big cities, Medusa became a recluse on a Mediterranean island. The villainous Wizard...
dead of influenza, or tuberculosis, or puerperal fever, or simple exhaustion, dead, as she travelled back in time, from worn-out unavailing teeth, from cracked kneecaps, from hunger, from lions, tigers, sabre-toothed tigers, invading aliens, floods, fires, religious persecution, human sacrifice...
According to late classical poets, Medousa was once a beautiful woman who was transformed into a monster by Athena as punishment for lying with Poseidon in her shrine. Earlier Greek writers and artists, however, simply portray her as a monster born into a large family of monsters. ...
‘Something I think about a lot is the will to adorn and how human that is, and how Blackness both enhances and makes weaponizable the will to adorn. While we’re being denied humanity, we’re always being imaged as ultimate specimen of the human. Fashion is a large part of that ...
Deconvoluting cell-state abundances from bulk RNA-sequencing data can add considerable value to existing data, but achieving fine-resolution and high-accuracy deconvolution remains a challenge. Here we introduce MeDuSA, a mixed model-based method that le
The poem then ends with another question that might be interpreted as either pleading or rhetorical: “Wasn’t I beautiful / Wasn’t I fragrant and young?” The speaker again almost seems to want reassurance, to be made to feel human again. Yet these questions are followed by the chilling...
medusan- one of two forms that coelenterates take: it is the free-swimming sexual phase in the life cycle of a coelenterate; in this phase it has a gelatinous umbrella-shaped body and tentacles medusoid,medusa Cnidaria,Coelenterata,phylum Cnidaria,phylum Coelenterata- hydras; polyps; jelly...
The appearance of medusas can vary significantly, from small and barely visible to the naked eye to those with diameters larger than a human. Jellyfish as a whole exhibit a wide range of sizes, colors, and shapes, influenced by their species, habitat, and stage in the life cycle. This ...