Nuns at an Italian convent were forced to write their vows in their own blood, self-flagellate every night, and eat spoiled food, a former member of the order is claiming. “We pierced our skin with ...

Researchers have identified a previously unknown species of unicellular organism in seawater collected near Hachijojima Island. The newly discovered species, named Viscidocauda repens, belongs to the ...

The late Pope John Paul II would whip himself, according to a nun who helped to look after him. So how common is this practice in the Catholic faith? "We would hear the sound of the blows," says ...

Researchers at the University of Tsukuba have identified a previously unknown species of unicellular organism in seawater collected near Hachijojima Island. The newly discovered species, named ...

This patient exhibits a pruritic, erythematous flagellate eruption. Flagellate refers to the linear or curved whip-like appearance of the rash. As can be seen particularly in Figure 1, the curved ...

Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences, Vol. 159, No. 977 (Mar. 17, 1964), pp. 668-686 (33 pages) Mixotricha is a large polymastigote flagellate from the gut of the ...

A 48-year-old white man presented with a 4-week history of itchy lesions on the skin of his upper back and shoulders. The patient’s medical history included ulcerative colitis and a seizure disorder.