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Record W2027575021 · doi:10.1177/014107680409700630

Thyroid Swellings in Renaissance Art

2004· letter· en· W2027575021 on OpenAlex
H. E. Emson

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Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of the Royal Society of Medicine · 2004
Typeletter
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicHistory of Medicine Studies
Canadian institutionsGenome Prairie
Fundersnot available
KeywordsChapelThyroglossal ductThe RenaissanceMedicineLesionPaintingThyroidCystArtAnatomyArt historySurgery

Abstract

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The paper by the Bondesons (December 2003 JRSM1) prompts me to comment that the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel is not the only painting of the Renaissance in which a medically identifiable neck swelling is shown. Piero della Francesca in his Resurrection shows the central soldier asleep at the tomb with his head thrown back. He quite clearly has a smoothly defined midline swelling in his neck. It is too high and too central to be a lesion of the glandular thyroid (Figure 1a). In a detail from the Polyptych of the Misericordia the same model is used, and the same swelling is clearly seen (Figure 1b). There is a tradition that Piero used himself as a model and that these figures are of him. He probably lived from 1420 to 1492, a very good lifespan for the period. If he was the subject, the lesion was not malignant or life-limiting. The most likely diagnosis is a thyroglossal duct cyst.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesResearch integrity, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Commentary · Consensus signal: Commentary
Teacher disagreement score0.160
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.003
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.025
GPT teacher head0.228
Teacher spread0.203 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it