Word: chest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nearly 65 hours, an artificial heart beat within Haskell Karp's chest. Then, 30 hours after the 8-oz. plastic device was replaced by the heart of a 40-year-old woman, Karp died last week in Houston's St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital, succumbing to pneumonia and kidney failure. By becoming the first human recipient of a completely artificial heart, Karp had briefly raised all sorts of expectations the world over. His death immediately touched off an angry controversy over the wisdom of trying out the device without further experimentation. It also brought into the open...
With the artificial heart in place, Cooley led these tubes out through the cut in Karp's chest wall. The heart-lung machine was switched off and the console switched on. At a slow-normal heart rate, the pump alternately sent a volume of carbon dioxide under pressure into sacs in the artificial heart to force blood out of the ventricles to the lungs and the rest of the body, then relaxed this pressure to let the heart refill with blood...
...distant that Jim Brown stopped talking to her altogether. When he wanted to communicate with Raquel, he did so through her husband-even when it came to passing the salt. When a publicity photograph called for a seminude clinch, Raquel called for a towel to insert in the chest-to-chest confrontation...
Some babies born with severe internal malformations have hernias that must be corrected surgically to save life. Surgery may also be required for adult victims of chest injuries in which the diaphragm is torn. The question before the surgeons in Boston was to decide when surgery is indicated for the vast majority of in-between patients whose hernias result from a slight innate weakness. The answer depends largely on how successful the surgery will...
...hiatus is simply an opening, the word being derived appropriately from the Latin verb hiare, to yawn. The esophagus (gullet), which carries food from the mouth to the stomach, passes through a hiatus in the diaphragm, the muscular wall that divides the chest and abdominal cavities. A hernia is a rupture, or break, usually in a muscle, that permits an organ to protrude through it. A hiatal hernia is an enlarged opening at the point where the gullet goes through the diaphragm. A relatively small hernia will permit the lowest part of the gullet to slide upward into the chest...