Word: correctives
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...later, with his wife's consent, a kidney was removed for transplantation. Following the nephrectomy the respirator was turned off. There was no spontaneous respiration. A medical witness declared the man had virtually died at the time he was put on the respirator, although it was legally correct to say death occurred following the interruption of artificial respiration. The surgeon, described as an assailant, was charged by a jury with manslaughter. He was then committed for trial by the coroner. The coroner had consented to the nephrectomy in accordance with the Human Tissue Act, 1961, section...
...marvelous! I want to write to this man-I have so much to tell him." But Shumway insists that in 1,500 operations in which he has opened hearts to correct defects, he has seen not one patient who needed a heart-assist device. The N.I.H. project, he believes, is justifiable only as a step toward the complete artificial heart...
...child was a victim of severe tricuspid atresia-constriction, to the point of almost total closure, of the three-leafed valve that normally regulates the flow of blood from the right auricle to the right ventricle on its way to the lungs for oxygenation. There is no way to correct this condition surgically, and its victims live no more than a few weeks. Justification for a transplant was clear...
Calling Daley's description of Jesse Owen's appearance in the 1938 Olympics as "indeed moving," the letter states that Owen's "inspirational performance has done little to correct the suffering and humiliation that still characterize the situation of black people in America...
Neatly reversing his field, Mr. Dirksen accused his onetime ally in the White House of doing too little "to exploit" diplomatic opportunities for peace. There is no doubt that Mr. Dirksen is correct. Several times in the past two years--most notably during the Tet truce in early 1967--President Johnson has spurned what appeared to be enemy peace talk overtures. It should be recalled, of course, that in February, President Johnson's refusal to trigger talks by stopping the bombing was supported by Senator Dirksen...