Word: braine
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Responsive Enough. The transplanted heart has no connections with the brain, Cooley pointed out, and therefore cannot respond to nervous stimuli that, for example, make the normal heart beat faster when a person is excited. Yet although the transplanted heart is less sensitive, it is able to keep the recipient alive and is responsive enough to permit him a reasonable degree of activity. An artificial heart, Cooley suggested, need do no more. Artificial heart research, which will surely benefit from the knowledge gained by transplants, may in turn help to explain why the natural heart, with no connection...
...total for the U.S. may run as high as 225,000. The fact is that no one really knows, and the experts cannot even agree as to the best way to find out. Nor can they tell yet how many of the lead-poisoned children will suffer permanent brain damage, or die in young adulthood from kidney damage...
...human body can dispose of the minute quantities that it ingests in food and water. But any unnatural overload piles up, causing abdominal cramps ("painter's colic"), lassitude, irritability, vomiting and twitching. In severe cases, the victim may lapse into a coma. Prolonged lead poisoning damages the brain so insidiously that its effects may not be evident for years...
...chance to excrete the overload. It usually takes at least twice as long to remove the lead as it took for the child to take it in, says Chisolm. For the milder cases, this appears to be sufficient. For more severe poisoning, especially if there are signs of brain damage, some doctors use drugs called chelating agents. These drugs work by substituting calcium for the lead, which is then excreted. Dr. Chisolm questions whether this is necessary in the milder cases...
Occasionally, Miss Frame breathes life into her tale of death with her poet's gift of language. Indeed, the best part of the novel is an interlude of exuberant Joycean punning when Godfrey's death-scrambled brain cannot help turning words inside out. For example, he reads "The Drol's Pryer...