Word: abdomen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hospital.) Physicians found that a bullet had grazed Mayor Cermak's liver and lodged at the back of his abdomen in his spine. His condition was critical. Mrs. Gill was on the brink of death as the result of a stomach wound. The other three were suffering only from flesh wounds...
Bang! Mrs. Joseph Gill, wife of the president of Florida Power and Light Co., staggered down the bandstand steps, grievously wounded in the abdomen...
...start over again. But with his second attempt he had mastered his vocal powers like a seasoned artist. Manfully he proceeded to display a firm, dark-hued tenor voice. It had no great volume, no ringing top notes. It had evidently been strained, misused. His sunken chest and relaxed abdomen were witnesses of faulty breathing which must have gone on for years. But the tones of his middle register, though slightly nasal, had clarity, directness. His legato was not languishing but neither did it have the vibrato so regrettably common among inexperienced singers...
President Hoover, George V and Benito Mussolini were among those who sent inquiries to Ford Hospital, Detroit and best wishes for the speedy recovery of Henry Ford, 69, in whose lower abdomen surgeons had made an incision to patch a rupture, at the same time removing the Ford appendix. Careful blood counts the day prior had indicated a probable infection. A relatively new anesthetic, Avertin, was used; it is easy on the heart; the operation lasted some 45 min. All other patients were moved from the third floor of the wing where Mr. Ford lay. The fact behind a fond...
...that the exposed end of the plunger rests gently yet firmly near the patient's navel. For there is where she contracts and bulges most. There is no discomfort. Says Dr. Dodek: "The entire apparatus with its tripod support rests on the evenly undulating movements of the abdomen in the intervals between contractions similar to the way in which a moored skiff rests upon the ripples of a calm lake." He finds that women like to watch the jerks of the pen. Above all it tells them when they are about to get a pain, when they must bear...