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Canities

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Canities 

the irreversible change in hair color to silvery white owing to the disappearance of pigment and the appearance of air bubbles in the hairs. Canities generally starts on the head and then spreads to the moustache, beard, and pubic region. Physiological canities starts between the ages of 35 and 40, with brunets graying sooner than blonds. Premature canities may start at the age of 20 and even earlier. Premature canities may be hereditary or may be caused by shock, disorders of the endocrine glands (thyrotoxicosis, diabetes mellitus), infectious diseases (typhoid), anemia, and hypovitaminoses. The hair of persons suffering from alopecia areata and erysipelas may temporarily turn gray. Canities may also afflict persons who have taken certain drugs for a long time. Cosmetic preparations, including dyes, are used to restore the original color of the hair.
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He himself drives the boat by the pole, ministers the sails and his rust-colored boat carries the bodies, now aged, yet a god's old age is hardy and green: portitor has horrendus aquas et flumina servat / terribili squalore Charon, cui plurima mento / canities inculta iacet, stant lumina flamma, / sordidus ex umeris nodo dependet amictus.
Images of liminality in Book VI of The Aeneid by Saeedi, Pouneh / CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
At 892 B, Montaigne cites these three verses of Juvenal 3 (lines 26-28): "Dum nova canities, dum prima et recta senectus, I dum superest Lachesi quad torqueat et pedibus me / porto meis, nullo dextram subeunte bacillo.
Intertextual Labyrinths: Ariadne's Lament in Montaigne's "Sur des ... by WIESMANN, MARC-ANDRE / Renaissance Quarterly
In the laboratory, Wood and his colleagues have also tested the polyhedrindeleted virus loaded with a toxin gene from the Diguetia canities spider.
Mothra meets its match; researchers engineer insect-killing viruses by Adler, Tina / Science News
 
 
 
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