Word: clotting
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...pioneered commercial production of serum albumin (for shock and kidney infections), gamma globulin (the first anti-polio serum), triple vaccine (against diphtheria, whooping cough and tetanus), the Semple Rabies Vaccine (an improvement on the old Pasteur formula), and is the exclusive U.S. marketer of fibrinogen (which helps to clot blood) and bubonic plague vaccine...
...Trieste's best neurologist and telephoned Rome for the doctor who had operated on Togliatti's skull in 1950. "Venous congestion due to sunstroke," the doctors said in a joint communiqué; language had in it the suggestion that Togliatti had been struck down by a blood clot. It was plainly more than "indisposition," as Togliatti's own doctor let slip some days later. "It must not be forgotten, the state of tension of the honorable Togliatti on that day," said Dr. Mario Spallone, and added, as if trying to put all the blame on recalcitrant Comrade...
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...