Word: buttocks
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...caricatures. Joyce Redman is a soggy old piece of cake. Finney is Tom clean through-a fine strapping country boy whose heart is in the right place even when his foremost interest isn't. But Hugh Griffith is the man to watch. A tankard in one hand, a buttock in the other, Squire Western superbly defines a type not quite extinct: the aboriginal Tory, John Bull in his own barnyard...
...question is, should a gentleman lick the wasp-stung buttock of a lady in distress? Please Don't Walk Around in the Nudel fails to provide an adequate answer, but it does pose the problem in a delightful fashion...
...best spot for the needle, according to Dr. Hanson, is the gluteal muscle in the buttock. This, he insists, is not to be confused with the whole buttock, which has a lot of fatty tissue lower down. Doctors have a traditional trick for picking the place for the needle. They draw two imaginary lines, one vertical and one horizontal, on the buttock (see diagram) and make the injection into the upper, outer quadrant. But this is risky, says Dr. Hanson, because people are not all built alike, and if the needle goes in a little too close to the midline...
...above and outside this line. This sort of careful placement rules out the fast injection. It also rules out the common practice of having a woman patient lean over a table and pull up her underclothes with one hand: that way, she exposes only the lower part of the buttock, where an injection may be dangerous...
...kids into the cafeteria-clinics. For the brave ones, two rolled-up sleeves sufficed for a shot of vaccine in one arm and GG in the other. Kids who went into tantrums had to be held while their pants were rolled down and they got a needle in each buttock. The one child in five who gave a blood sample will be bled again in about a month, for comparison of before-and-after antibody levels. All parents got a form on which to report whether their children develop a fever or rash...