Word: abdomenal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scalpel, not the slow cure of a pill." Even the scalpel can be too slow. "For God's sake, will you cut?" asked the surgeon who supervised No-len's first timid incision. "At the rate you're going, we won't be into the abdomen for another four hours...
...stripped to the waist and knelt on the floor, only inches away. "Don't be a fool, stop it!" the general cried. Mishima paid no heed. He followed to the letter the seppuku, the traditional samurai form of suicide sometimes called harakiri. Probing the left side of his abdomen, he put the ceremonial dagger in place, then thrust it deep into his flesh. Standing behind him, Masakatsu Morita, 25, one of his most devoted followers, raised his sword and with one stroke sent Mishima's severed head rolling to the floor. To complete the ceremony, Morita plunged...
When surgeons at Manhattan's Memorial Hospital removed a cancer from the Long Island housewife's abdomen, they found that the growth had spread to her digestive tract. As a result, they also had to remove about 16 ft. of her intestines. The surgeons were confident that all the cancer was out. Now the question was: How could the patient be nourished...
Last month the Memorial surgeons reopened Jane Smith's abdomen. Satisfied that she was free of cancer, they disconnected their short circuit. Then they opened Anne's abdomen and removed about five feet of small intestine (the lower jejunum and upper ileum), and used this to replace Jane's missing tract. The surgeons also left a small, separate piece of the graft protruding through the abdominal wall, to facilitate observation of the transplant's progress. Last week the courageous donor was eating normally, and she expects to go home within a few days. Recipient Jane, after...
...fluid surrounding the fetus. At that point, the level of a phospholipid known as lecithin usually rises sharply and surpasses the level of another lipid, sphingomyelin. To determine if this has occurred normally, the Gluck test uses transabdominal amniocentesis, a technique that involves inserting a sterile needle through the abdomen into the womb, drawing off a sample of amniotic fluid and measuring the lipid levels...