Word: aftereffect
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...Aftereffect. In Oakland, Calif., motorist James Wallace swerved to avoid one auto, sideswiped another, crashed through a heavy guard rail, careened down a 200-ft. embankment, landed in a tree, still unhurt climbed out and surveyed the damage, was conked on the head and knocked out by a falling boulder...
...epidemic in London: "Everybody is coming down with it, you know. It's really only a very light kind of flu, keeps you in bed only four or five days. The only really bad part is that you get up with a very low blood pressure. . . . The aftereffect is really alarming, old boy. Understand you're getting a similar epidemic here. Better watch the blood pressure, you know...
...five in the afternoon, gradually recedes as evening draws on. Average course of the fever is six weeks, but it may disappear for several monthS, suddenly return, so that the average duration of the disease is reckoned at three to four months. Fatalities are few. The main aftereffect is weakening of the heart. Whether undulant fever causes abortion in humans is not yet known, but it does temporarily affect the genital tract...
...cannot find room enough to vibrate the vocal cords. Then, instead of a healthy, he-man holler, there emerges only a high, husky whisper. Before doctors discovered how to prevent this condition by the use of throat-tubes and toxoids* such stenosis (contraction) of the larynx was a frequent aftereffect of diphtheria and scarlet fever. Today, the largest number of laryngeal deformities is caused by accidents, not by disease...
...anesthetic which thus delighted Baltimore surgeons with its speed and freedom from ether's nauseating aftereffect is called evipan. Invented in Germany, it belongs to the barbituric acid group. Because other intravenous anesthetics have proved difficult to control its U. S. manufacturer, a Manhattan chemical company, is having it thoroughly tested before placing it on the market...