Word: corneas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Changing the cornea's curve
...inspired. First, he wrote down all the letters of the alphabet so we could check rhymes: aime, bime, cime, dime, eime, fime,... Then he wrote down all the names and things we could think of relating to blindness: Moshe Dayan, Mo Udall, cornea-retina-pupil, eyeball-to-eyeball, I ball and you ball and you can't even...
George Burns gave her a spot in his show. United Artists found a part in Frank Capra's A Pocketful of Miracles, and in State Fair her dark brown hair showed up as a cornea-shattering shade of red. A star, she drove up to her old high school in a yellow Cadillac convertible and strolled through the halls in a mink coat. But four years later, the bottom fell out. Her managers, in her version of it, were merely exploiting her sex appeal-and ineptly. With puppylike trust, Ann-Margret did as she was told. At 25, after...
...hard lens, you usually know it immediately." A soft lens, he noted, may mask the warning discomfort of an eye injury. Indeed, Dr. Richard Troutman, surgeon director of the Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital, has already seen three "complications" involving experimental soft contact lenses. The patients later required cornea grafts...
...before permission was obtained. There was no such delay at the Utah hospital. Informed by the patient's wife about the donor card, surgeons were able to operate on him as soon as he was pronounced legally dead.* They removed both kidneys for transplant and both eyes for cornea grafts. Within a few hours, one of each was used for transplants in other patients...