Word: abdomen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Detroit's Mt. Carmel Hospital, surgeons crowded around operating tables for the show. One of them deftly slit open a patient's abdomen and explored the cavity. In an outburst of surgeon's humor, a colleague boomed: "Now watch him botch it; never fails to mess it up when he tries to show off." (But the operation, a clinic demonstration, was a success.) Amid such scenes, sawbones of 16 nations got together last week for their first international meeting since before...
...wadis (valleys) in a locally built truck, the Mallowans scouted for Chaldean 600 B.C. tells (mounds) near the Habur and Jaghjagha rivers. To her consternation, Mrs. Mallowan was drafted as a gynecologist by the Arab women. Reports amateur gynecologist Mallowan: "The commonest gesture is an expressive rubbing of the abdomen. This has one of two meanings: a) acute indigestion, b) a complaint of sterility. Bicarbonate of soda does excellent work in the first case and has attained a somewhat surprising reputation in the second...
...looked like a child of nine. He weighed only 75 Ibs.; he was only 4 ft. 6 in. tall. His ankles and abdomen were bloated. His heart beat so faintly that it could scarcely be detected. At Detroit's Art Center (osteopathic) Hospital, Surgeon Albert Collum Johnson guessed that the boy's heart was in some kind of strait jacket. His guess was right...
...larvae are enclosed in cocoons to change into motionless pupae. Deprived of the stimulation which they get from, the larvae's squirmings, the workers lose their restlessness. The whole colony marches into a hollow log. After a few days of this seclusion, the queen is gravid. Her abdomen swells enormously, and she lays some 30,000 eggs, which hatch into tender white larvae. When both larvae and "callow" ants are ready to travel, the colony becomes nomadic again...
Hoarding for Safety. We arrived in late afternoon, the time for the peasants' wives to be making supper-if they had any. We were met by three expressionless, grimy, starving boys. The abdomen of one was distended until he could not fasten his ragged garment over it; his translucent, putty-pale, bare skin showed a blue network of blood vessels...