Word: abdomen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Seeking an explanation for these findings, Kissebah examined fat and muscle biopsies taken from the abdomen and thighs of his subjects. He discovered that fat cells taken from the abdomen of upper-body-obese women were enlarged, appearing like so many overstuffed pillows. In lower-body obesity, by contrast, fat cells were normal in size, though excessive in number...
Make a cross on your abdomen...
Using a high-energy X-ray beam, researchers at Stanford administered a total of 2,000 rads of radiation (less than half the dosage for Hodgkin's disease) to the lymph nodes of the neck, chest, abdomen, thymus gland and spleen. Patients were treated five days a week for five weeks. Within a month, all the patients started to improve; six months after the irradiation, disagreeable symptoms such as morning stiffness, pain and swelling within the joints were all significantly reduced...
...surgical procedure offers a double benefit to mastectomy patients. Using a section of fat and muscle from the abdomen, Atlanta Plastic Surgeon Dr. Carl Hartrampf replaces missing breasts and gives women a bonus "tummy tuck" in the process. A section of the rectus abdominis, one of the two large muscles that run vertically from the ribs to the pelvis, is removed, along with a surrounding island of skin and fat. The large artery supplying blood to the region is left intact. The skin of the chest is sliced free of its underlying tissue, and the entire mass is moved into...
...four days. After the second day, they introduced a new feature to the game. Two men locked their legs in mine and held me spread-eagled against the wall. Then a third would run at me from the opposite wall and drive his knee into my lower abdomen and testicles. The pain was unbearable...