Word: cm
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...lesion, the pincer makes a clean slice through the quivering tissue, simultaneously sealing the wound by laying down a triple row of surgical staples. A few more snips and the task is complete. Sugarbaker, chief of thoracic surgery at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital, draws a 10-cm-long sliver of lung through a finger-size hole in the patient's side and sends it for biopsy...
...joints), a thoracoscope (when the chest is involved) and an angioscope (when the target lies inside blood vessel walls). But apart from differences in length and thickness, all these scopes are fundamentally alike: slender fiber-optic tubes that can be inserted deep inside the body through minute (1-cm-long or less) incisions. With the addition of a tiny telescopic lens, a miniature light source and a palm-size video camera, these tubes are transformed into videoscopes that project images of the patient's internal organs and, even more important, of the snippers, staplers and graspers that the surgeons manipulate...
...Eddie Joe Reddick, a retired Nashville surgeon credited with popularizing the technique, "we were committing assault and battery on our patients. It wasn't what we did to their insides, but what we did in order to get there that was the problem." Now, instead of an 8-cm to 15-cm slash down their abdomens, patients wake up with four small incisions that not only heal more quickly but also are far less painful. In fact, most patients whose gall bladders are removed laparoscopically leave the hospital the next day and return to work within a week...
Will they be saved? The Endangered Species Act is up for reauthorization this year, and a throng of interest groups is determined to weaken it. Not since 1977, when an 8-cm (3-in.) fish called the snail darter halted construction of Tennessee's Tellico Dam, has this critical piece of environmental legislation generated so much controversy...
...that respect, the Iceman has already yielded a trove of detail. He was a 20- to 40-year-old man, about 160 cm (5 ft. 3 in.) tall, with tattoos in the shape of crosses and lines. The wear on his teeth suggests a diet of meat and stone-ground meal. (An analysis of his stomach contents may yield more information about his eating habits.) Well equipped for an Alpine trip, he wore a jacket of tanned leather stitched together with fine thongs. His leather boots were lined with hay to keep out the winter chill...