Word: braining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...side of Key's neck, heard a telltale sound. To confirm his suspicions, he had an opaque dye injected into Key's bloodstream and an X ray taken; the resulting picture showed constriction from a large atheroma in the right carotid arteries that supply Key's brain...
...operating room, Dr. DeBakey performed a surgical procedure that he pioneered and has improved over the past ten years. He installed a temporary plastic "shunt" so that blood supply to the brain would be maintained during the operation, removed large gobs of fatty material from the carotids, enlarged both the common and internal carotid arteries still further by suturing a Dacron patch in their walls. Then a week later he removed the atheromas that were causing the sharp pain in Key's legs...
Medical researchers have not yet found the cause of the disease, but surgeons have succeeded in treating its symptoms. New York's Dr. Irving S. Cooper uses supercold liquid nitrogen to destroy an area of the brain that is responsible for the patient's characteristic tremors...
...incision and bores a hole in the patient's skull. He places a bow-shaped instrument of his own design around the patient's head, and using the instrument as a guide, carefully threads a long cannula (tube) toward the thalamus at the center of the brain...
...chicken brain...