Word: auricular
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Unintentionally significant is the scene in which Danny makes a general confession of all his young life's trespasses, receives absolution from the priest. Omniscient Oswald Spengler called autobiography a modern substitute for auricular confession. James T. Farrell has been pouring out powerful, bitter autobiographical tales for eleven years. But he has yet to feel artistic absolution, personal release from the tragic burden of his earlier environment. He plans a series of perhaps 50 volumes. The first 3,000 pages form a major contribution to U. S. literature. But his remorseless pictures of Irish-American life, from the sacristy...
...that if she possibly could she would appear at the Ball tomorrow night in spite of the tailoring and pruning and late rehearsals that accompany the opening of a big musical comedy. She also said she would sing some of the songs which are rumored to be titillating the auricular appendages of Beacon Hill audiences...
Cardiologists have a hard time coping with auricular or ventricular fibrillation, primarily because they are not certain how the condition develops. Only positive factor known was that the vagus and accelerator nerve controls were involved. Last week Dr. Louis Herman Nahum, Yale associate physiologist, and H. E. Hoff, onetime Yale physiology instructor and now a Harvard medical student, set forth before the New Haven Medical Association a theory and a treatment based on new research...
...make it susceptible to overactivity of the vagus nerve. Some patients are naturally subject to vagus action. Some develop it reflexly from high blood pressure and it is probable that all hyper-thyroids are sensitive to the vagus nerve. In this way, overactivity of this nerve develops, which precipitates auricular fibrillation...
Digitalis is the only treatment for auricular fibrillation...