Word: abdomenal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rice diet so unappealing that most of them abandoned it as soon as they left the hospital and medical supervision. A handful of doctors even tried surgery to depress blood pressure. The operation was called a sympathectomy; it cut certain nerves leading to the organs of the chest and abdomen on the theory that this would relax the arterioles. It did but only temporarily; the arterioles soon responded to hormonal signals to constrict...
...prosecution alleges that the fetus was between 24 and 28 weeks old, and that the type of abortion Edelin was performing--by incision through the abdomen--should have resulted in the delivery of a baby...
...Yankees, the counsel offered by Pitcher George ("Doc") Medich is probably even more worthwhile. Medich, a 19-game winner last season, doubles as a third-year medical student at Pitt. "A lot of guys ask me for advice," says Medich. "Last year Elliott Maddox had a bulge in his abdomen. I told him it might be a hernia or a ruptured pyramidalis" (a small rudimentary muscle). Medich's diagnosis was correct; Maddox had a hernia...
...markedly out of character. There was speculation that the medication that Mills has taken since his back surgery in 1973 may have brought on his bizarre conduct. Friends say that lately Mills has become addled and repetitious in conversation, and makes frequent complaints of pain in his abdomen. Mills has clearly not been himself for some months, and it was his odd behavior, as much as his recent shenanigans with Fanne Foxe, that caused the Democrats in the House to move against...
...shorting out of cables caught in puddles during rainy open-air concerts, many musicians have been jolted by violent charges, and one was killed-Les Harvey, lead guitarist with Stone the Crows. Aside from mobility and safety, Hartman reports that his stomach contributes to the sound ("The abdomen is the most resonant part of the body"), an unexpected sensation he regards as a gratifying trip all its own. "I can feel the vibrations in my body. I know what an expectant mother must feel like. I am the music...