Word: chambered
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Useless Pumping. In transposition, placement of the heart's outflow pipes is reversed. The aorta, the great artery designed to supply oxygenated blood to the entire body, arises from the right lower chamber (ventricle) of the heart instead of from the left. As a result, it carries used blood back into circulation. The pulmonary artery, designed to carry used blood to the lungs for oxygenation, arises from the left ventricle instead of from the right; as a result, oxygen-enriched blood is pumped uselessly back and forth between lungs and heart...
They hooked up the tiny 7-lb. 3-oz. child to a heart-lung machine. Then they took the venae cavae, the two great veins that carry used blood back to the heart, cut them away from their normal position leading into the right upper chamber (auricle) and led them over to the left side. As near simultaneously as possible, the team of surgeons took the pulmonary veins, which carry oxygenated blood from lungs to heart, and severed them from the left auricle. They stitched the venae cavae to the places where the pulmonary veins had entered the left auricle...
...left hand the blindfolded subject holds a tiller by which he can swing the sound beam, searching for test objects-small wires, lengths of pipe, pieces of cloth-hung at random from the chamber's roof. When the beam hits a target, an echo comes back, and from the character of that echo an experienced listener can tell an amazing amount about the target...
Besides looking at the mansion and the collection, you can hear free concerts, usually chamber music or a soloist, at 3 p.m. every day the museum is open. There is a special concert at 8:45 p.m. on the first Thursday of each month...
Excavations are also being made north of Sardis, where the Harvard-Cornell team hopes to reach a Lydian burial chamber sometime next year...