Word: abdomenal
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...bomb, and a big one. Seconds later the Iron Curtain was lowered, and even Israeli police, barred from the legation, had to wait outside while the injured were carried out. The wife of Soviet Minister Pavel Yershov was slightly hurt, the legation housekeeper was wounded seriously (fragments in the abdomen) and had to be rushed to Hadassah Hospital in an ambulance. A tight-lipped legation official rode with her, suspiciously demanded to know every step the Jewish doctors performed, and insisted on being present during the emergency operation which saved her life...
...Alexis St. Martin, a French-Canadian voyageur, took a shotgun blast in the abdomen at Fort Mackinac in 1822, but his life was saved by Army Surgeon William Beaumont. A small opening in St. Martin's abdominal wall and stomach remained, and through it, over many years, Beaumont made hundreds of observations on stomach functions...
...peace returned to the chamber, now slopped with ink and blood and littered with glass shards, torn paper and shredded shirts. One usher went to the hospital with a brain concussion; a Red sported a two-inch-deep gash in his scalp; a Demo-Christian nursed a badly bruised abdomen; the House first-aid station impartially bandaged Red heads and court-plastered Demo-Christian faces...
...explanation of what was going to happen and the fetal heartbeat pounded over the air. Then the cameras switched to the hospital's up-to-the-minute facilities for care of premature babies. Only the TV crew and newsmen saw the actual incision in Mrs. Kerr's abdomen and the quick, dramatic extraction of the full-term baby. The TV audience was cut in again just in time to see Gordon, already swabbed down, get his umbilical cord tied, his mouth drained of mucus and drops put in his eyes. Gordon's response: a lusty wail...
...astronomer's telescope would seem oddly out of place in a doctor's office. But at the University of Chicago, Dr. Paul C. Hodges, has turned a Schmidt-type telescope into a highly efficient camera for making X-ray pictures of the human abdomen. The simplified system of lenses and concave mirror that can photograph the dimmest starlight is being used for quick, sharp snapshots of a faint, fluorescent screen...