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• STEATOPYGIA (Gr. oriap, fat, irvyit rump)

STEATOPYGIA (Gr. oriap, See also:

• FAT (O.E. fdett; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dutch vet, Ger. Fett, &c., and may be ultimately related to Greek Irian, and =apos, and Sanskrit pivan)

fat, irvyit rump)  , an unusual See also:

• ACCUMULATION (from Lat. accumulare, to heap up)

accumulation of See also:

• FAT (O.E. fdett; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dutch vet, Ger. Fett, &c., and may be ultimately related to Greek Irian, and =apos, and Sanskrit pivan)

fat in and around the buttocks . The See also:

• DEPOSIT (Lat. depositurn, from deponere, to lay down, to put in the care of)

deposit of fat is not confined to the gluteal regions, but extends to the outside and front of the thighs, forming a thick layer reaching sometimes to the See also:

• KNEE (O. E. cneow, a word common to Indo-European languages, cf. Ger. Knie, Fr. genou, Span. hinojo, Lat. genu, Gr. ybvv, Sansk. janu)

knee . This curious development constitutes a racial characteristic of the See also:

• BUSHMEN, or BOSJESMANS

Bushmen (q.v.) . It is specially a feature of the See also:

• WOMEN

women, but it occurs in a less degree in the See also:

• MALES

males . It is also See also:

• COMMON

common among the See also:

• HOTTENTOTS

Hottentots, and has been noted among the pygmies of Central See also:

• AFRICA
• AFRICA, ROMAN

Africa . In women it is regarded among them as a beauty: it begins in See also:

• INFANCY

infancy and is fully See also:

• DEVELOPED

developed on the first pregnancy . It is often accompanied by the See also:

• PECULIAR

peculiar formation known as " the Hottentot-See also:

• APRON (a corruption arising from a wrong division of " a napron " into " an apron," from the Fr. naperon, napperon, a diminutive of nappe, Lat. mappa, a napkin)

apron," hyper-See also:

• TROPHY (Gr. Tpo7rauov, from TpE7rw, put to flight; Lat. tropaeum)

trophy of the nymphae (Tablier) . No satisfactory explanation of these malformations has been offered . See also:

• STEATOPYGIA (Gr. oriap, fat, irvyit rump)

Steatopygia would seem to have been a characteristic of a See also:

• RACE

race which once extended from the Gulf of See also:

• ADEN

Aden to the Cape of See also:

• GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

Good See also:

• HOPE, ANTHONY
• HOPE, THOMAS (c. 1770-1831)

Hope, of which stock Bushmen and pygmies are remnants . The See also:

• DISCOVERY

discovery in the caves of the See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

south of See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France of figures in See also:

• IVORY (Fr. ivoire, Lat. ebur)
• IVORY, SIR JAMES (1765-1842)

ivory presenting a remarkable development of the thighs, and even the peculiar prolongation of the nymphae, has been used to support the theory that a steatopygous race once existed in See also:

• EUROPE

Europe . What seems certain is that steatopygia in both sexes was fairly wide-spread among the See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early races of See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man . While the Bushmen and Hottentots afford the most noticeable examples of its development, it is by no means rare in other parts of Africa, and occurs even more frequently among Bastaards of the male See also:

• SEX (Lat. sexes; possibly connected with secure, to cut)

sex than among Hottentot women .