Word: abdomenal
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...When Wayne Sturdevant, 32, was shot during an argument, the bullet lodged in a heart cavity. As a surgeon at Seattle's Swedish Hospital was removing it, the bullet slipped from his forceps and traveled down a large vein, against the blood flow, into the abdomen. So the surgeons sewed up the heart and chest, and within 20 minutes, opened the abdomen. This time they got the bullet. Sturdevant was making a good recovery last week from the shooting and both operations...
...trying to keep in good shape during the long, painful siege, the University of Iowa's Dr. William D. Paul had some homely hints: for fingers and wrists, wash dishes; for fingers alone, milk cows; for toes and ankles, pick up marbles with the toes; for back and abdomen, try gardening. The very weary, said Dr. Paul, could give hips and knees a stiff workout in a rocking chair...
...York Hospital, Surgeon Frank Glenn opened the Senator's abdomen in the hope of finding that the malignancy had originated in a specific organ; then the primary site could be removed, or treated with radiation. But no such site could be found. A growth was found in one kidney, but it was not the primary site. The abnormal cells were all over, and new experimental chemicals proved useless against them. The doctors (no less than 46 were brought in) sadly concluded that they could do nothing more for Taft than make his last days comfortable...
...Margaret and Mary Gibb, 41-year-old twins joined at the base of the spine, both had to be anesthetized at Boston's New England Deaconess Hospital for famed Surgeon Frank Lahey to remove a fibrous tumor from Margaret's abdomen. After the two-hour operation, both sisters were reported doing fine...
Every 'Cliffe girl who has taken Body Mechanics knows how to walk up stairs, jump off stools with just the right degree of poise, and pump her abdomen to rhythm...