Word: clotting
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...blow made premature world headlines as a "slap in the face," but it was a box on the ear, and internal bleeding began between the layers of the left eardrum. A blood clot formed, which caused the eardrum to burst, and at latest reports Commander Bower was said by the doctors to be in a "serious condition...
...should a clot of mustard lodged in the digestive apparatus of one splenetic old gentleman affect the well-being of millions...
Unamuno, "the most important Spaniard since Goya," died of a blood clot on the brain at 72, after making this estimate of Spain's present younger generation: "Our youth has deserted all the constructive and finer things of life for violence and destruction. This struggle in Spain has developed into a class war, full of horrors, without pity or generosity of any kind." Cold facts on Spain's horrors are increasingly hard to get past its censors but in Paris last week arrived United Press's seasoned Madrid correspondent Lester Ziffren, previously an ace coverer of Latin...
...keep him alive for months. Like all muscles, the heart requires the nourishment of blood. It gets this blood through two coronary arteries which tap off from the aorta just after it springs from the hollows of the heart. If a coronary artery is clogged by a blood clot (thrombus), or is narrowed by hardening, the heart cannot get enough blood to survive. Before it dies, it causes the terrifying signal of pain called angina pectoris...
...increased metabolism is lost, with the result that the patient suffers not only from the intoxication of the hyperthyroidism, but also from that which arises from utilizing his own body for fuel." Few patients have the stamina to endure a thyroid crisis. Their hearts give out or a blood clot stops circulation...