In most countries amniocentesis is now offered to – perhaps even imposed on – all older mothers, to check whether the foetus carries an extra chromosome.

[I]t is a kind of acting to go into masquerade, and a man should be able to say or do things proper for the dress in which he appears. We have now and then rakes in the habit of Roman senators, and grave politicians in the dress of rakes.

As You Like It, I. 2[Celia loq.] . If I had a thunderbolt in mine eye, I can tell who should down.

The ochnas are among the most attractive trees of this section.