Word: abdomen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While the body grows leaner and weaker, subtler, more dangerous changes occur. Vitamin deficiency causes bones to soften. Protein-deficient diet causes edema-a swelling of arms, legs and abdomen because of waterlogged tissues. Hair and teeth may fall out. Children stop growing...
Surgeon de Souza cleansed the nose, pared the edges, which had already begun to wither, made a circular cut in the patient's abdomen, buried the nose under four layers of tissue, then sewed up the incision. To Rio newsmen he explained that: 1) stomach tissues would provide better nourishment; 2) if the nose had become contaminated, it was easier to fight infection in the abdomen...
Last week, the sutures withdrawn from her abdomen, Fifi's recovery was pronounced complete...
Sandra's trouble: embryonal nephroma or Wilms tumor (named for German Surgeon Marx Wilms, 1867-1918). The disease is an expanding growth of the kidney which rapidly fills the abdomen and hinders normal functions. It usually causes a relatively painless death within six months after diagnosis. The doctors, who might have removed Sandra's kidney if the condition had been discovered sooner, shook their heads. The medical men knew better than anyone else how often modern medicine, with all its touted knowledge and skill, has to stand back and accept defeat...
...lifting a packing box when he suddenly felt everything "let loose" in his stomach. When he lay down he didn't feel so bad, but the minute he stood up, the old feeling came back. At the Chicago hospital, he complained of severe, knifelike pains in the abdomen...