Word: angina
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...accountant, 58, came to the hospital 21 days after an attack of angina pectoris. He seemed in satisfactory condition until the 16th day in the hospital. The head physician was making his round; as the doctor drew closer, the patient became nauseated, suffered a severe attack and died within two hours...
...after eight years and one month of his sentence, No. 3 could barely see because of the cataracts in his eyes. Afternoons he worked in the prison gardens where occasionally his angina pectoris would grip his chest so that he would cry out and sink stiffly to the ground. A waiting guard would rush forward, break a Trinitrin capsule under his nose and the old man would get up and go back to work...
...tired, 63-year-old man went back to work last week at a fearsome job, and the 16 million Protestants in Communist East Germany gave thanks for his decision. Heinrich Grüber's white hair is thinning rapidly and he is racked with angina pectoris, but there is nobody who has proved able to deal so effectively with the Communists on behalf of East Germany's Protestants...
Slipshod Tests. Then there are conditions of the heart and arteries about which patients need special advice: severe high blood pressure, hypersensitivity of the main artery in the neck, the aftereffects of a heart attack, narrowing of the aorta, or angina pectoris so severe that it may cause crippling pain. Some abnormalities of the senses may easily go undetected, especially in the slipshod license examinations given in most states. Notable among these are tunnel vision-the ability to see straight ahead, but not far enough to the right or left-and disorders of the labyrinth of the ear, which controls...
Died. Titta Ruffo, 75, famed Italian baritone and onetime (1921-29) Metropolitan Opera star; of angina pectoris; in Florence, Italy. Son of a Pisan ironworker, Baritone Ruffo turned from blacksmithing to opera, during three decades earned critical raves and $1,750,000 before he retired...