Word: clots
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Excellency, Premier Carl Gustaf Ekman, who recently took office, lay ill last week at Stockholm, suffering from a blood clot...
Died. Albert Merritt Billings, 32, Manhattan clubman, son of Financier-Sportsman Cornelius Kingsley Garrison Billings of New York and California, on his yacht Tropic in New York Harbor, attended by his wife Margaret ("Teen") Shaw Billings; of embolism (blood clot...
...death. He must not jiggle the needle, else its embedded tip would tear the thin cells of the brain and kill the patient. With micrometer precision he gripped with the forceps the needle end. With ramrod straightness he pulled. The needle came out. Except for a little clot of blood it was clean. Little possibility of infection. The child probably would live...
...which let us chant an antiphonal amen. And continue. For continue we must, now that Dreiser has given us the big rhythm. But perhaps we are hitting our man too many times on the same blood-clot. Nevertheless we remember that there have been in years a gone double-decker novels whose power increased with their size. Knut Hamsun's Growth of the Soil" was such a one; it captured a dinky little Nobel Prize or something of the sort. Then there was Fielding's "Tom Jones"--pretty good for an old-timer, what...
...qualities of blood is that when exposed to air it coagulates. This is a very necessary quality for when there is a lesion of a blood vessel, the blood issuing from the wound tends to clot, preventing further loss of blood. In certain persons this quality of the blood is absent, so that if they suffer even a slight wound they may readily bleed to death. The disease is known as hemophilia...