Word: concertinas
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...inches of the single bone (femur) in each thigh and about 3½ in. of the two bones (tibia and fibula) in the legs. The extra lengths of arteries and veins, muscles and tendons, had to be squeezed in and left to "take up the slack" by a gradual, concertina-like contraction...
Play something else on your concertina...
Perpetual Motion. In Brisbane, Australia, Edward Eugene Ebzery, jailed for the 588th time for drunkenness, philosophized: "A bloke's like a concertina-if he's not coming in he's coming...
...swift-moving, light cars of El Capitan fared worse. Four of its coaches folded side by side like pleats in a giant steel concertina. Crewmen, and nearby farmers who arrived to help, needed sledge hammers, axes and acetylene torches to cut into some of them. Inside El Capitan's scarred skin were 388 passengers, almost all of them badly scared and shaken. Seventy-five were injured, and nine-most of them in Car 2918-were dead...
...wrote: "Formerly I regarded the breathing thorax as a concertina bellows; my present work suggests that it resembles rather a cylinder and piston." But this reverse action of the lungs, he contends, is often missing in actual cases of injury or drowning. Reason: a patient's diaphragm is relaxed, flaccid. So Dr. Eve tried something else...