Word: cadaveric
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On a kind of odyssey via Volkswagen, the four intellectuals drive to Leslie's funeral in Brooklyn, a voyage of selfdiscovery. Spouting psychoanalytical jargon, needling one another and everybody else, the Volkswagen men bumble through Brooklyn, pulling at a bottle of whisky, stopping at intermittent bars, where they are...
The man who died had been on a heart-lung machine and his temperature cooled to 68° F., which gave his organs a better chance of surviving after circulation was stopped. Thanks to a foresighted arrangement with the heart patient's family, surgeons were able to remove the...
Brazil's President Joāo Goulart, who rode nationalism to power himself, has called foreign-owned utilities "a cadaver in the road to good relations" and has announced plans to buy out all foreign utility companies in the country. Goulart has already negotiated the purchase of International Telephone...
In an effort to stave off the immune reaction, Brigham surgeons have done ten transplants after irradiating the recipients' whole body. But only one nonidentical twin survives. Now Surgeon Joseph E. Murray and his colleagues are relying on drugs alone to suppress the immune reaction, and all of their...
X-ray the Transplant. Now at the Medical College of Virginia, Dr. Hume has begun kidney transplants with modified techniques. First, Dr. Hume removes both of the patient's diseased kidneys, to lower blood pressure and to guard against infection and especially against glomerulonephritis. After the operation, Dr. Hume...