Word: clots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What had caused Harris' fatal hemorrhage? The doctors had no exact term for it, but they knew what had happened: Harris' liver had suddenly quit producing the body elements that cause blood to clot. Whether the liver's breakdown was the end result of an infection or earlier injury, the autopsy failed to show...
...created hydrogen atoms, says the steady state theory, the whole universe has developed. Pulled by gravitation, the hydrogen atoms clot together, forming gas clouds, stars and galaxies. The galaxies flee from one another after their own odd custom, and more hydrogen is created in the space vacated. The process continues forever without beginning...
...Rocca cut a hole in the left side of the patient's skull, and cleaned out a blood clot (the result of an injury) that had been pressing against his brain and had robbed him of the power of speech. They replaced the piece of skull and sewed up the scalp. The whole operation had taken 14 minutes. The ancient surgical instruments were sent back to the National Museum of Archeology. Last week the doctors examined their patient, told him he could go back to his work as a cabinetmaker this week...
...commonest form of heart attack is a coronary thrombosis: a blood clot in an artery supplying the heart muscle checks the blood flow and starves the muscle. To overcome this handicap, the heart must labor excessively; like a car on a steep grade in high gear, it pings alarmingly and may stall. A noted Canadian psychiatrist suggested last week that the basic cause of the trouble may be found, not where doctors have been looking, in the patient's physical exertions or his arteries, but in his emotional problems...
...shin kick had caused a blood clot next to the bone. The clot became infected and inflamed, spreading the bad infection into the bone. There was talk of amputation. Penicillin and diathermy saved the leg, but while such infections can be curbed, they are sometimes impossible to cure. Mickey, who must guard against flare-ups of the infection, has had his share of poison-pen letters demanding to know why he is not fighting in Korea. On medical advice, Mickey's draft board has rejected him three times...