Word: abdomenal
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...Hiatus. With the small patient under ether, Dr. Swan made a huge incision to open chest and abdomen. He pulled out a loop of the jejunum (uppermost part of the small intestine) and cut it off near the duodenum. Carefully he worked the long, free end upward to the diaphragm. For a time Dr. Swan had to turn his attention back to the dangling duodenum (see chart): he made a T-junction by stitching its attached bit of jejunum into the intestinal tract a couple of feet below the original cut (making a natural outlet for digestive juices...
...tired, 78-year-old Pontiff was in his study working on a speech when he felt the first attack of pain. It began in his lower abdomen and rapidly became more and more intense. The old man lifted the phone...
...much the same way as the famed Brodie twins (TIME, Dec. 29, 1952, et seq.) with one obvious exception: the Brodie boys faced the same way, but the Andrews girls face in opposite directions, so that when one lies on her back, the other must lie on her abdomen...
...operating table, Connie and Bonnie Johnson, 10½ weeks old, died in Little Rock, Ark. The attempt to separate them failed because their hearts were fused. In Paris, doctors were hopeful that Michéle and Nadége Aubrun would continue to make progress. Joined at the abdomen, they shared a liver and intestines. They were separated when two days...
...Tunney after Jack Dempsey flattened him for the famed long count in 1927. And he was a bug on conditioning. All Webb teams did road work before reveille; all Webb boxers developed washboard bellies. They needed them. Coach Webb had a quaint habit of slamming his fist into any abdomen within range, by way of greeting...