Word: bloodstreams
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...sickness that they suffered from was serum hepatitis ("needle jaundice"), the form of the disease in which the virus goes from one bloodstream to another by means of unsterilized or insufficiently sterilized injection equipment. In his high-speed psychiatry, Weiner had freely used injections and infusions, and, the jury held, was criminally negligent in failing to sterilize his equipment...
...rapidly that they outstrip their blood supply. Radiotherapists speculated that they might make up the deficiency by putting the patient in a chamber where he could breathe oxygen at a pressure four times that of the atmosphere. A high concentration of oxygen could then be carried in the bloodstream to the tumor cells...
...bloodstream riches of dearborn F. Parker, 51, a food processing supervisor, are a byproduct of disease. Last spring Parker reported to Fort Worth's Carter Blood Center complaining of weakness. Physicians found that he had hemochromatosis-a rare condition caused by excessive iron absorption through the intestines into the blood. Some of the iron had deposited in Parker's liver and pancreas, contributing to cirrhosis and a mild case of diabetes...
...mainly against the berry-shaped microbes or cocci, such as streptococci, staphylococci and pneumococci. But they were ineffective against most rod-shaped bacteria. And most of them had two other draw backs: they were so quickly destroyed by digestive acids that they had to be injected directly into the bloodstream, and they were destroyed by the enzyme penicillinase. which is produced by resistant strains of staphylococci...
...General Motors. But he adjusted poorly to retirement, restlessly moved from California to Nevada and then back to his native Georgia. "You cannot eat baseball and sleep baseball and study baseball year after year and then just stop like that," he once explained. "It's in the bloodstream. You crave it. You can't get along without...