Word: abdomen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...city. This was near where McDuffie, a former Marine and the father of three children, had lived. White motorists who strayed into the area were hauled from their cars and beaten. Police found one man with his ear and his tongue cut off and a bullet wound in his abdomen. A red rose had been stuffed into his mouth. Near African Square Park, a car repeatedly drove over two white men who had been beaten up and left lying in the street. "They just dragged these couple of guys out and stomped them to death," said one eyewitness. When...
...exceptionally delicate procedure, performed some 15 to 20 weeks into the pregnancy, is done under a local anesthetic. Doctors scan the woman with pulsed sound waves to locate the fetus, the umbilical cord and the placenta. After making a small incision in the abdomen, they insert into the uterus and the amniotic sac a pencil-lead-thin tube containing an endoscope with fiber-optic bundles that transmit light. This enables the physicians to see tiny areas of the fetus. By inserting biopsy forceps into the tube, doctors can take a 1-mm (.04 in.) skin sample from the fetus. They...
...well-known husband-and-wife obstetrical and gynecological team, as part of the fertility program at Eastern Virginia Medical School. They will use a variation of the technique developed by British Scientists Patrick Steptoe and Robert Edwards. An egg will be removed, through a small incision in the abdomen, from the ovary of a woman whose fallopian tubes are either hopelessly blocked or too damaged to permit natural fertilization. Then it will be placed in a laboratory dish with the husband's sperm. (Unmarried women are not eligible.) About two days later, the fertilized egg will be inserted into...
...subjects, but even in these areas there is a temptation not to research a choice tale to death. Last month the paper reported: "A young woman was apparently made pregnant by a flying bullet -which tore off the testicle of a Civil War soldier and then passed through her abdomen!" Many celebrity stories are also difficult to verify. Admits Chief of Research Ruth Annan: "Gossip is gossip." Critics argue that at the Enquirer, getting sources is just a matter of finding some informant to say what the paper wants to hear. "It's worth a lawsuit just to find...