Word: abdomenal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week, less than three months after he was forced to resign the presidency, Nixon lay in critical condition in Long Beach Memorial Hospital Medical Center. The cause was internal bleeding in the wake of sudden surgery for blood clots in his left leg and lower abdomen. It is thought that the anticoagulant drugs he had been taking had caused a tendency toward prolonged bleeding, and he went into shock. His family gathered round in vigil, their photographed faces masked by now familiar anguish. President Gerald Ford sent red roses to his predecessor and offered prayers on Nixon...
...surgical procedure doctors carried out on Richard Nixon is relatively common and uncomplicated. Opening Nixon's abdomen just above the groin, Dr. Eldon B. Hickman clamped a 1½-in. serrated plastic clip across the iliac vein from Nixon's left thigh, just above the spot where a clot, discovered last week, had formed. Hickman said later that he could "readily palpate [feel]" the clot during the operation. The teeth of the clip (called a Miles clip, after the physician who invented it in 1962) were closed, creating a sluicelike effect that permits blood-but not large clots...
...smuggle coke through Mexico, was caught with 2.6 kilos concealed under his bell-bottom trousers. Katherine Lou Simmons, 25, a Hollywood pianist, was arrested when officials discovered that her roundly curved belly was not a sign of pregnancy; she had strapped a mound of coke to her lower abdomen...
...infertility are blockage or surgical removal of the oviducts so that the egg cannot meet the sperm. Bevis and several other investigators on both sides of the Atlantic reasoned that this roadblock might be bypassed if: 1) ripe ova were removed through a small surgical incision in the abdomen, 2) one was fertilized by the husband's sperm (obtained by masturbation), 3) the conceptus was kept alive and subdividing in glassware for a few days, and finally 4) it was implanted in the wife's uterus. Bevis succeeded in keeping the conceptus alive in what he calls...
Last November the Chicago Tribune documented many sickening cases of police brutality. Among the victims were a teen-ager who lost an eye after being wantonly slugged by a policeman, and a woman who gave birth to a deformed child after being pounded in the abdomen by a patrolman. The series of articles led to the indictments of four cops, whose cases are still pending...