Due to the special nature of the blood supply to the humannose and surrounding area, it is possible for retrograde infections from the nasal area to spread to the brain. For this reason, the area from the corners of the mouth to the bridge of the nose, including the nose and maxilla, is known to doctors as the danger triangle of the face.
It is therefore possible (but rare) for nose-picking or squeezing a pimple in this area to result in death. This has been dramatized to American high-school students as the "triangle of death".
In humans and most other mammals, the nose is either central to the face or on the upper tip of the snout.
Due to the special nature of the blood supply to the human nose and surrounding area, it is possible for retrograde infections from the nasal area to spread to the brain.
For this reason, the area from the corners of the mouth to the bridge of the nose, including the nose and maxilla, is known to doctors as the dangertriangle of the face.
As a child Hope had chattered too much, feeling her round freckled face redden with excitement, her heart nearly bursting with its own beating, wanting within her ribs all of her, head to toes, scalp to footsoles, to be loved, to be held, to be desired.
Her shiny auburn bangs, her signature when a young woman, are not even gray now but white, so thinned and dry and lacking in body, each filament sticking out with a mind of its own, as to be a mere souvenir of what once covered her forehead with the smooth bulge of a coppery cuirass.
There this living body was, incongruous with the everlasting mountains behind her, startling, a tall fl-haired person, her face city-pale, in a purple cloak with a huge hood, like an apparition of death in a Bergman film.
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