Word: adrenalinized
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...doctors and the trainers thought Jim Kenary was ready for more than three minutes of action today, and any sustained play by Adrenalin Jim should mean a working air attack to set off the ground effort. For the first time since Virginia the first four tackles were declared ready for more than scattered work, and for the first time since Dartmouth the center squad has two men, experienced at the position, equipped for play. Tighter backing up and more effective line blocking should result...
...Russian delegate, angered by some remark of Britain's Hector McNeil, screamed: "You have hallucinations! You have nightmares!" Then he offered McNeil some medical advice: "Why don't you take some adrenalin or other medicine to calm your nerves...
...Adrenalin, a powerful stimulant, quiets no nerves. But perhaps, U.N. observers speculated, Vishinsky and friends have been reaching for the adrenalin instead of the bromide...
Following up this discovery, Trueta's investigators found that short-circuiting of the kidney cortex may be produced by many different stimuli. Direct electrical stimulation of certain nerves produced the same result; so did severe hemorrhages, heavy doses of certain hormones (e.g., adrenalin, pituitrin), and injections of the poison secreted by staphylococcus germs. All of these stimuli, the investigators decided, activate nerves which constrict the kidneys' blood vessels and divert the blood flow from the small vessels in the cortex to the larger ones in the medulla. Lack of blood in the cortex, in turn, raises blood pressure...
...Russian scientists, in similar dog-reviving experiments, have used a more elaborate method-arterial and intravenous transfusion, artificial respiration, adrenalin injections...