Word: blistering
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...sheets soaked in carbolic acid in an effort to achieve sterile conditions, one of the first to use drip infusions (such as sugar and salt solutions) into veins. And he invented a daring operation to open and then stitch together an artery which had developed an aneurysm (like a blister on an inner tube). When Matas retired at 67, the trustees imported Ochsner from South Dakota (by way of St. Louis, Zurich, Chicago and Milwaukee); this time there was no home-grown crown prince...
...nonmetallic element that is a byproduct of electrolytic refining of blister copper, used by the electronics industry to coat rectifiers and for photoelectric cells...
...been going off around El Auja, the sun-blasted crossroads on the rocky southern route which may have been Joseph, Mary and the Christ child's on their flight into Egypt. Since 1949 the 100-sq.-mi. demilitarized zone created under the U.N. armistice has bulged like a blister into Israel's Negev desert holdings. In recent weeks Canadian Major General Edson L.M. Burns, the U.N. truce supervisor., has repeatedly warned the Egyptians to stop putting up "check points" inside the zone. The Israelis chose this area to attack...
...first it seemed that he might beat cocky, towheaded Lew Hoad, Australia's rocket-launcher. He took the first set, 6-4. Then Hoad, in his finest form in two years, began slamming out a cannonball serve that Trabert could not match or break. Bothered by a blister on his racket hand, Trabert weakened in the third set, dropped five straight games. In the fourth set, ahead by 7-6, Hoad switched tactics, stopped blasting Trabert's serves and began dinking the ball back. Trabert's timing was upset. He could not clear the shots fired...
...When a blood clot in a coronary artery causes a heart attack, one result may be an aneurysm-something like a big blister-bulging from the heart muscle. Drs. William Likoff and Charles P. Bailey of Philadelphia's Hahnemann Hospital report what is believed to be the first successful operation to remove one. A man of 56, formerly bedridden, has been, able to climb stairs without distress since the operation 15 months...