Word: bone
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Behind His Back. When a hip joint is damaged, the ball of bone at the head of the femur may rub against the roughened surface of the socket in the hip proper (see diagram), causing severe and immobilizing pain. Replacing the head of the femur with a stainless steel ball (just under an inch in diameter for the average patient) is relatively easy. The difficulty is to secure the ball to the femur. In early operations, the shaft holding the ball was screwed into the femur. Charnley was dissatisfied with the method because the shaft sometimes came loose. A dentist...
...least 120 people were treated for injuries at Stillman Infirmary and the Old Cambridge Baptist Church. The Associated Press reported that a total of 300 people had been injured. About 70 of the injuries reported were serious lacerations and bone fractures or breaks. At least 14 policemen were also injured...
...part, a translator's job is to act as a sensitive and knowledgeable link between alien cultures. The incredible range and idiosyncrasy of Grass's language make extraordinary demands on any translator. Heaps of new coinages are typical in Grass's books, as with "Knochenberg" (bone mountain), which Grass used to describe the enormous pile of human bones lying outside the processing plant in Dog Years. Leaps of Grass's imagination incongruously link references to obscure moments in Polish and German history, folklore, pop songs and blasphemous echoes from the Catholic Mass (relics of Grass...
...accident at sea, it is sometimes said, in the vocabulary of marine gallantry, that she came into port "under her own power." In any given season, a surprising number of crippled shows, often musicals, limp into Manhattan listing badly. For them, Broadway is not a safe haven, but a bone yard...
...shot in the face. There are bullet or fragment holes in the back and buttocks, one of which had exited through his abdomen, the others lodged somewhere. He, like most of the others, came in lying in a pool of blood. Feces and ground up bits of bone were flowing out of the buttocks wound. Vomit ran from his mouth and mixed with the blood pouring from his mouth and mixed with the blood pouring from the face wound. We worked with him for a long time but his chances were slim. He was in shock (most of them were...