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...Abdomen. Healed scar in the right lower abdominal wall from an appendectomy...
...clothes and stand in front of a full-length mirror and look at yourself. Be brave, for this is going to be a shock." It is likely to be more than that-in view of the dreadful revelation of "bulges in the wrong places." a ghastly "sag" in the abdomen, the flesh "flabby" overall, and blown up bolsterwise into "a roll around the midriff," the "splotchy, sallow" skin, the "dull, faded, gray, stringy" hair, the "red-rimmed, bloodshot, dark-circled" eyes, the "rough, red, chapped" hands. Questions come flooding to the smeared lips: "Do you need a deodorant...
Researcher Borison is sure he has discovered an additional trigger zone somewhere "lower down" in the central nervous system, that sets off radiation-induced vomiting. By cutting certain nerves in the upper abdomen that lead to the control center, he is able to prevent vomiting from radiation. If he can discover the cause of radiation-induced vomiting, a way may be found to combat death from radiation sickness...
...movements languid, his voice soothing. He views the world as being peopled exclusively by "nice guys." Once he applied that label to a famed middleweight boxer he had met. A friend pointed out that the pug had recently gone to jail for kicking his pregnant wife in the abdomen. Perry looked momentarily unhappy, then suggested: "Maybe it was a case of mistaken identity...
Prissana and Napit Polpinyo, the Siamese twins from Thailand who were separated a month ago at Chicago's Billings Hospital (TIME, April 11), were learning to walk straight ahead by themselves instead of sidewise in tandem, as they had when they were joined at the abdomen. Their recovery after the successful operation was probably speeded by the presence of their familiar nurse, Jirapon Karsemsak, who will soon return with them to Thailand...