Word: abdomen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...death of another one of their own when a vehicle hit a land mine, are more than ready to leave. Fallout continues from an incident five weeks ago: Gunnery Sergeant Harry Conde, infuriated when his prescription sunglasses were stripped off by a Somali youth, shot the boy in the abdomen. A military court is now considering whether he used "excessive force...
...reality check" to work on her cadaver once the group began examining the abdomen, Ogilvie says. "There was just cancer everywhere," she says. To look at certain organs, her group had to remove tumors. "To see...what caused this man's death was a draining experience, and hard," she says. "It was really up close--what cancer looks like, what death looks like...
...approach to surgery that is rapidly displacing the dreaded knife and scalpel. "We are witnessing the greatest surgical revolution in the past 50 years," exclaims Dr. William Schuessler, a urological surgeon from San Antonio. The instrument sparking such enthusiasm is variously known as a laparoscope (when used in the abdomen), an arthroscope (when applied to the joints), a thoracoscope (when the chest is involved) and an angioscope (when the target lies inside blood vessel walls). But apart from differences in length and thickness, all these scopes are fundamentally alike: slender fiber-optic tubes that can be inserted deep inside...
...essence of the $250 system is simple: a belt, with two speakers in a pouch, to be fastened around the mother's abdomen. A series of 16 audiotapes, dubbed the "cardiac curriculum," plays an increasingly complicated pattern of heartbeat-like sounds (one mother describes them as African drumbeats) to the unborn infant...
...explanation is that fluctuating weight may so stress the body that blood pressure and cholesterol levels become elevated. Men appeared to face greater risk of ill effects than women, possibly because they tend to store excess fat in the abdomen, while women carry it around the hips and thighs. Fat from the belly is more easily mobilized and sent into the bloodstream, where it can clog vital blood vessels. Psychologist Kelly Brownell of Yale University, who directed the study, emphasizes that the findings do not condemn dieting. Rather, they indicate that people need to set realistic goals and be committed...