Word: aorta
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...Goffredo G. Gensini buttonholed a visitor, Radiologist Charles Dotter from the University of Oregon. Dr. Dotter sterilized the G string of a guitar, punctured the main artery in the woman's thigh. then-watching the steel's progress under the fluoroscope-worked it up into the aorta, the body's main artery. When it was close to the heart, he slipped a thin polyethylene tube over the dangling end, worked this up the artery, using the steel string as a guide, then withdrew the guide. Radiopaque dye injected through the tube showed, on X rays, a ruptured...
...strings of pianos and guitars). The needle is soon withdrawn. Inside the steel spring is a single-strand steel wire for stiffening. As in the Syracuse housewife's case, polyethylene tubing is slipped over the steel spring. But in her case, the doctors did not go beyond the aorta. Now they go around the aorta's arch (see diagram) to its end at the aortic valve-the blood's exit from the left ventricle...
With driving intensity and singleness of purpose, Surgeon DeBakey worked all day every day and half the night (since 1948 at Houston's Baylor University hospitals) on mechanical defects of blood vessels, especially the aorta. This great vessel, the body's main artery, sometimes develops an aneurysm (like a ballooning blister on a bicycle's inner tube) that is often painful and disabling, and fatal when it bursts. Daringly, Dr. DeBakey began to cut out aneurysms and replace the damaged section of aorta with a graft from an artery bank. Gradually, with improved techniques and materials...
...bravely: "Just like I told you when I came in, I feel fine." Though he soon gave way to tears, he still managed to keep his old red head in describing his bout with the malignant growth in his chest. "That damnable" tumor had even adhered to the aorta, great artery from the heart. Sobbing, Godfrey said: "Like all aviators. I'm not afraid of what I know about. Every time a pilot takes off, he takes what we call a calculated risk. He knows it could be the last time." Then Godfrey headed off for at least...
...Wynn) an innocent Manhattan psychoanalyst who goes to Hollywood as technical adviser on psychological movies. The doctor (crying, "I'm sorry, Sigmund!") is quickly seduced by Star Audrey Merridew (Julie Newmar), a wine-piney Georgia cracker who lives (on hush-puppies) with her cussing, Grant Wooden mother on Aorta Road. In time, Dr. Kalbfus divorces his wife, traipses around in a beret, becomes convinced that Sophia Loren wants to marry him. He winds up back in Manhattan, being analyzed himself. Mourns his analyst: "It's no good. We'll never understand what happens to people in Hollywood...