Word: abdomen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hospital, a man was admitted for accidental gunshot wounds, and when it became clear that he could not survive, relatives gave permission for the use of his liver in a transplant. As the prospective donor's life ebbed, Surgeon Thomas E. Starzl opened Mrs. Goodfellow's abdomen to get her ready for a quick transplant. This operation took ten hours. Her liver was so enlarged by disease that instead of a normal 4 Ibs. it weighed closer to 20 Ibs. Dr. Starzl left his patient anesthetized, with her liver "just sitting there" until it was time...
While the female nibbles, the male waits patiently until his aphrodisiac has had time to work. Then the male wheels around to test her reactions. If she wags her abdomen vigorously up and down, she is saying no-or at least, not yet. The urgent male gets in front of her again and feeds her more candy. Repeated feedings are sometimes necessary before the aphrodisiac administered with the candy puts her into the proper mating mood...
...left him," says Dr. Russell, "Mrs. Callahan signed the release." A phone message went to the Brigham even as the patrolman's lifeless body was wheeled into an operating room. There Drs. Nathan Couch and Anthony Monaco made a long vertical incision on the right side of the abdomen. Within three minutes they cut down to the portal vein, which drains into the liver; they then injected a frigid solution to cool the precooled liver down still more. They completed their work in 24 minutes and dropped the liver into a cold saline solution in a sterilized container...
...raised my hand to examine her abdomen," Dr. Gerisch reports in the Harper Hospital Bulletin, "she drew up her legs and started to laugh, even before I touched her. Her mother said their pediatrician had never been able to examine her abdomen. I said, 'Put your right hand there' (right upper quadrant). 'Does that tickle?' She said no. I said, 'Put your hand down there' (right lower quadrant). 'Does that tickle?' She said no. Then I placed my hand on top of her hand, and asked whether it tickled, and she said...
...patient obeyed, and Dr. Gerisch was able to examine McBurney's point (a spot on the abdomen, which becomes supersensitive in appendicitis), and the rest of the young woman's usually fluttery abdomen. She made no complaint about being tickled...