Word: anestheticized
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¶A steroid called Viadril (chemical kin to cortisone and the sex hormones) shows great promise as an anesthetic, reported two University of California researchers. Dripped into the veins, it has been successfully used in 125 operations. If upheld by mass testing, Viadril could make surgery safer because
An hour before Calvin was to be ready, surgeons anesthetized a big dog (what breed, if any, is a secret) and removed an entire lung. The animal was then painlessly put to death with more anesthetic.
Out of Monnet's contagious enthusiasm grew the great crusade for Europe, which France's Schuman, Germany's Adenauer and Italy's late great De Gasperi led and fought for. Said one of Monnet's admirers: "If he were put under an anesthetic, he would...
Some family doctors do the operation in their own offices, other general practitioners send the patient to a urologist or general surgeon. With a local anesthetic, it takes about 20 minutes (and costs from $25 to $100). It does not change the man's sexual functioning in any way...
Dentists, as well as surgeons, have good cause to be wary of the use of anesthesia. Eighteen to 20 patients die in the U.S. each year from anesthesia in dentists' offices. Most common cause of death is brain damage from hypoxia (shortage of oxygen) caused by improper mixture of...