Word: brainpan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tops of their skulls. For the second time since the operation which separated them (TIME, Dec. 29), Plastic Surgeon Paul W. Greeley was busy with skin grafts. First, he had taken skin from Rodney's forehead and moved it back to cover part of the open brainpan. Now he set about taking skin from the baby's back to cover his forehead...
...special-duty nurse watching over him the clock around. Also present, almost constantly, was Pediatrician Herbert J. Grossman, waiting to flag the surgeons when the time came to operate again. For the doctors were convinced that neither twin could get much better without a top to his brainpan (now closed lightly with plastic, metal foil and bandage). The longer the brain cavities remained unsealed, the greater the danger of a fatal infection. So far. neither of the babies was strong enough to face more surgery...
...literary curiosities of modern times was reissued on the U.S. literary counter. Hadrian the Seventh might seem caviar to some, to others only a mess of purple eggs laid by a very odd fish indeed. To all, however, it offers one of the wildest sights ever flashed on the brainpan of a madman, a kind of interior cinema of a grand delusion. The author's life is a necessary prologue to the book-and its inevitable epilogue...
Rodney soon began to improve, and the doctors had high hopes that he would live to have a metal brainpan fitted in the top of his skull, and grow up. Roger fought for life, but was still in a coma this week...