Word: adrenalinized
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...face and an outburst that begins (in milder cases) with goddam, ends (several minutes later) in total verbal annihilation. Fellow authors like Booth Tarkington, Ben Ames Williams, Samuel Blythe have publicized these tantrums with such glee that the suspicion has grown that Roberts rages are also literary, less an adrenalin effusion than a character signature like Wotan's motif in the Nibelungen Ring...
...young Austrian heart specialist named William Raab gave himself a stiff injection of adrenalin. In a few minutes he felt an agonizing stab in his shoulder, a choking sensation in his throat, lightning pains down his left arm, a drenching sweat. Dr. Raab's agony was really a triumph. For he had produced, for the first time, symptoms of the dread heart disease, angina pectoris...
...pectoris: that the bad actors in angina are the adrenal glands. The adrenals, which cap each kidney, are "second-wind" glands, spill forth energy-producing juices in time of stress. When certain sensitive individuals overwork, or get an emotional shock, their adrenals speed up to feverish pitch. The excess adrenalin tightens the arteries leading from lungs to heart, deprives the heart of oxygen just when it is most needed. Such temporary smothering. Dr. Raab believes, produces the stabbing spasms of angina...
...seemed to Dr. Raab that angina might be licked if the adrenals of angina patients could be prevented from flooding the body with adrenalin. After a decade of experiment he finally worked out the idea of weakening adrenal tissue by Xray...
...force-is a nine-lived cat. Supposedly killed off several times, it still keeps pattering around science's pantry. Last week Dr. Herbert Eugene Ives, an astute and merry physicist who works for Bell Telephone Laboratories in Manhattan, gave the old tabby a good strong shot of mathematical adrenalin...