Word: abdomenal
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...soldiers at a golf course on the outskirts of Elisabethville took the occasion to shoot down an unarmed U.N. helicopter moving overhead. They stoned the six surviving crewmen, pummeled them with rifle butts; a 23-year-old Sikh lieutenant, who lay helpless with a machine gun slug in the abdomen, died unattended in three hours. Indian Brigadier Reginald Noronha, commander of U.N. troops in Katanga's capital, was furious. "This is the last time," he said. "Next time there are going to be fireworks...
...always some protein outside the bloodstream because it has leaked through the capillaries -surprisingly as much as half of the blood's total stock. By a still-obscure method, the lymphatic system picks up this protein,, which then flows to lymphatic collection points. Biggest of these, in the abdomen, is the cisterna chyli. Others are in the chest. Through large lymph channels-notably the thoracic duct-the protein returns to the blood stream. Most surprising, Dr. Mayerson and fellow researchers found, is the sheer volume that the lymphatics handle. In the dog, and probably in man, the kidneys...
...Ford ought to insure his stomach for about twice as much as Marlene has coming to her if her legs get scratched. Ford has the most eloquent pot in show business, and it'd help me unwind a whole lot quicker in the evenings if I knew that his abdomen was in good hands. I mean, this guy has a Method stomach. All he has to do is stand up and you know that he's playing to perfection a crabby, self-dramatizing, infinitely egotistical (and very funny) petty tyrant. His stomach has all the gloom of W. C. Fields...
...Having reason to hide her condition," writes Dr. Bauer, "the unwed mother attempts to conceal her enlarging abdomen by pulling in her buttocks, much as the cowed dog tucks his tail between his legs. This flattens the abdomen and reduces the lumbar lordosis [curvature of the lower spine]. In this position the fetus lies more parallel to the maternal spine and the abdominal muscles are less stretched." By contrast, "the married mother carries her pride before her like a banner, and drags behind her a crippling backache which often becomes chronic...
With a simple diagram showing the stress points of pregnancy and how the fetus may stretch the abdomen (see cut), Dr. Bauer tries to persuade his married patients to look as though they...