Word: aorta
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...swallowed milk through an eyedropper. Her heart beat regularly, and when she cried it bounced up & down on her chest like a tiny red rubber ball. Dr. Jesus Celius of the University of Santo Tomas refused to consider an operation to place her heart inside her chest. Reason: its aorta (main artery) would have to be shut off during the operation. Last week, after living seven days, little Maria Corazon died of pneumonia...
...most polished charlatan ... of the century." Abrams made lasting contributions to the science of medicine by discovering that when the skin of the chest is irritated, the heart and lungs contract slightly. He also discovered that a clout on the spine may reduce a disabling bulge in the aorta. On the other hand, Abrams claimed without acceptable evidence that the human body was an electrochemical machine which produced certain vibrations when healthy, certain other vibrations when sick. He claimed that he could diagnose specific diseases by means of a machine which resembled a radio receiver. By means of this "Oscilloclast...
...Beck did get his doctor-patient off the operating table, has managed to keep him alive for months. Like all muscles, the heart requires the nourishment of blood. It gets this blood through two coronary arteries which tap off from the aorta just after it springs from the hollows of the heart. If a coronary artery is clogged by a blood clot (thrombus), or is narrowed by hardening, the heart cannot get enough blood to survive. Before it dies, it causes the terrifying signal of pain called angina pectoris...
...with a burr abraded a raw spot on the beating heart. Against that raw spot he placed the raw end of the pectoral muscle. Within a short time blood vessels grew out of the muscle and into the heart, thus supplying blood by a roundabout channel from the aorta across the chest and into the side of the heart...
...groin (39%) and the common iliac artery in the lower abdomen (15%). Embolus here stops circulation in the entire leg and foot. Other frequent sites for emboli are the brachial artery in the elbow, affecting the forearm and hand; the popliteal (10%), affecting the lower leg and foot; the aorta, affecting the entire body...