Search Details

Word: axial (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Some eras have been particularly critical for God's history. During the so- called Axial Age (800 B.C. to 200 B.C.), political and economic changes led to new religious ideologies throughout the known civilized world: Taoism and Confucianism in China, Buddhism and Hinduism in India, the rational philosophy of Plato and Aristotle in Greece, differing concepts of monotheism in Israel and in Iran (Zoroastrianism). Common to all these ideologies was what Armstrong calls "the duty of compassion," meaning authentic religious experiences must be integrated into everyday life. The Axial Age was a time of prosperity, when power was passing from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Man Created God | 9/27/1993 | See Source »

Although Japanese hospitals are sometimes endowed with the latest hightech equipment, they often lack the trained personnel to use it. Japan has 2,500 computerized axial tomography (CAT) scanners, sophisticated X-ray devices that reveal detailed cross-sectional views of the body. Yet there are only 1,500 radiologists in the country to handle the machines. By contrast, the U.S. has about 2,800 CAT scanners, but more than 12,000 specialists are qualified to use them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Prognosis: Steady Improvement | 8/1/1983 | See Source »

...years ago, doctors began to see more detail with a new kind of X-ray machine that uses a computer to construct clear, cross-sectional views of the body. The CAT scanner (for Computerized Axial Tomography) revolutionized radiology. But now that virtually every large hospital in the country has invested in one, at about a million dollars apiece, another revolution is under way: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, or NMR. Currently being studied for approval by the Food and Drug Administration, the new technology is in experimental use at about half a dozen top U.S. medical centers as well as several overseas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Making the Body Transparent | 1/31/1983 | See Source »

...physicians' greatest fear was that Clark had suffered a stroke. To check, they ordered sophisticated X-ray images of the brain and heart, using a CAT (computerized axial tomography) scanner. In Clark's case, this proved to be a major undertaking. The scanner is on the first floor, and Clark is tethered by two 6-ft. tubes to 375 Ibs. of equipment that powers his heart and is in turn plugged into outlets for electricity and compressed air. Clark had to be switched to an auxiliary battery and air-supply system that allows temporary mobility. Then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: And the Beat Goes On | 12/20/1982 | See Source »

Until recently, treatment has generally been limited to prescribing supplemental estrogen, to slow the resorption rate, and calcium, to facilitate the formation of new bone.* Using a computerized axial tomography scanner, doctors at the University of California in San Francisco are able to take three-dimensional X rays of the bones, measure the loss of minerals and devise an estrogen dosage sufficient to maintain the resorption balance. Says Kaiser-Permanente Endocrinologist Dr. Bruce Ettinger, who does research at U.C.S.F.: "We've been trying to find the smallest dose of estrogen that will prevent osteoporosis. I think we have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Building Up Brittle Bones | 12/7/1981 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Next