Word: chested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chest. The lungs were clear to auscultation. The determination of vital capacity was within normal limits...
...process. While the new material was being freeze-dried (by a half-dozen methods), an attendant made fresh entries on a wall board in Dr. Hyatt's office, to expand the bank's current inventory to: 33 cortical strips, eight infant long bones, four straight pieces of chest artery, 39,354 sq. cm. of skin. The tissue bank will not take material from victims of infectious disease or cancer, has to rely mainly on victims of heart attacks and accidents. In five years it has taken material from 104 individuals, benefited about 1,000 patients of 150 military...
...daughter could marry a Groote Island aborigine. So, Charlie gasped from his iron lung: "I bin sung." Explained a fellow tribesman, acting as interpreter: "Him bin sung song of dreamtime snake. When you sung snake song, snake coils around legs and arms and chest, and you no longer breathe. If I bin sung, snake get around me, and I bin finished...
...during surgery. Dr. Paul M. Zoll, assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, reported that he and his associates had stopped fibrillation and restored the normal beat in four cases by applying heavy currents (up to 720 volts) to the patient through two copper electrodes held against the chest wall. Heretofore, fibrillation has been stopped only by applying the current directly to the heart, requiring a time-consuming chest incision...
When he was wheeled into the operating theater, the small patient was lost among a task force of 15 doctors and nurses, led by Surgeon Donald B. Effler. Then, building palisades of clamps, scalpels, retractors, forceps, the surgeons opened the boy's chest and inserted tubes in the two great veins carrying used blood to the heart. When they clamped off these veins, they forced the blood out through the tubes, which fed it to a combined pump and oxygenator, the heart-lung machine developed by Cleveland Clinic's Willem Johan Kolff (TIME, Oct. 31). From the machine...