Word: cerebellum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After long, exhaustive examinations Budapest neurologists told the 47-year-old poet that an egg-sized cyst webbed with tiny blood vessels was sprouting on the right side of his brain, back of his cerebellum. If he did not have it removed in ten days, they said, he would become paralyzed and blind...
Three hours after the operation began, when Dr. Olivecrona was delicately prying out the red tumor from the flaccid tissue of Karinthy's cerebellum, the poet lost consciousness. Three weeks later, after an uneventful convalescence, happy Poet Karinthy went back to his Budapest cafés, heard no more nonexistent locomotives. But two-and-a-half years after his ordeal he died of a heart attack...
...great contributions to surgery was his operation for removal of tumors rooted in the nerve of hearing. Turning down a flap of muscles at the back of the neck, the surgeon cuts out a piece of bone at the base of the skull, gently pushes aside the soft cerebellum in order to bare the acoustic nerve. After removing the tumor he resettles the cerebellum, tightly stitches down the tough flap of neck muscle. The bone is not replaced, for the muscle-patch is strong enough to protect the patient from injury. The entire operation is performed under a local anesthetic...
...autopsy Assistant Medical Examiner Charles Herman Hochman reported that he had found malformation of the cerebellum (section of the brain controlling movement) as well as an undeveloped thyroid gland, and an enlarged thymus. The thymus gland is found only in young children, normally disappears at adolescence...
Might I humbly suggest that either your reporter revise his terminology, or examiners of teachers revise their routine to include a cursory perusal of that important area devoted to the function of thought, a few anatomical notches above the cerebellum? I wager many a sagging cortex, many a short-circuited corpus callosum will thus be disclosed...