Word: abdomenal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Striking Rojas in the abdomen, the .45-cal. slug shattered the spleen, then ripped through the diaphragm, punctured the left ventricle-the heart's major pumping chamber-and entered the aorta, the main artery of the body. Like a log in a swift stream, it was carried by the blood round the aorta's bend, down the chest into the left iliac, a major blood vessel feeding the leg, where it finally came to rest. Had the bullet taken a different course-blocking an artery to the head, say-Rojas would have died immediately...
...have two hundred pairs. But all insects, like Gaul, are divided into three parts, or segments?a head, a thorax or chest, and an abdomen. All have three pairs of legs, and most of them have wings...
Petri is an ostomate, one of a million Americans who has had their large intestine or bladder removed because of cancer or disease. An artificial opening is made through the abdomen for removal of body waste which is collected by a plastic appliance...
...operation was irreversible, and that when black women appear in hospital clinics, no matter how diverse their medical symptoms, they are usually assumed to be prostitutes and packed off to the VD clinic without examination. These women don't need more information; they know that a pain in the abdomen is not a symptom of venereal disease. They don't have the choice to consult "another doctor." What choices do they have? Taking Our Bodies Back is right to urge women to overcome the victimization of "passive consumership and doctor worship." But its directors were wrong to assume that...
...Sabich's house. Soon afterward, she phoned the Aspen Valley Hospital to report that there had been a shooting. Sheriffs officers, police and ambulance attendants found Sabich lying in the master bathroom, next to a sunken tub, mortally wounded by a single .22-cal. bullet in the abdomen. As Aspen Valley's Dr. Charles Williams related it, Longet "told police officers that he [Sabich] was showing me how to hold the gun and it went...