Word: cranial
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...normal babies, cranial sutures (the spaces between the bones that make up the skull) are wide at birth and gradually narrow over the years. By the end of childhood the sutures close. But when a stunted child is being treated for deprivation dwarfism-and grows rapidly as a result-the sutures tend to widen instead. Usually, this is an ominous sign of rising fluid pressure within the skull, perhaps from a brain tumor...
...local physicians -general practitioners, obstetricians, ophthalmologists, pediatricians and the like-Dr. Stevenson called on Whittaker, a highly skilled former Navy medical corpsman, to assist him on three occasions from October 1965 to July 1966. At those times he was called upon to operate a cranial drill and a flexible saw used to remove patches of skull. What were Whittaker's qualifications to do such work? After attending hospital corps school and a naval operating-room technicians' school, Whittaker testified, he had served not only as a "circulating corpsman" in operating rooms but also as "first assistant" during...
When he signed the bill creating the twelfth Cabinet-rank federal agency last month, Lyndon Johnson gave no nod, verbal or cranial, to the man who had worked hardest to create the Administration's long-sought Department of Transportation. Alan Stephenson Boyd stood stoically aside while the President praised others and declared gratuitously that he was looking for a "strong man" to head DOT. Last week Johnson announced his choice: Alan Boyd, 44, former chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board who, as Under Secretary of Commerce for Transportation, had devoted his days since June 1965 to the task...
...French name, "painful twitch," is a descriptive understatement; the medicalese refers to the three branches (trigeminal=triplet) of the fifth cranial nerve...
...filling out forms that you do. The same passion for a complete, readable overview which leads the State Department to describe the Curriculm Vitae as a "narrative statement giving a pic- ture of yourself as an individual" may motivate its instructions to your doctor ("Comment in full on cranial nerves, motor status and coordination, reflexes, and equilibrium and indicate if the applicant has ever suffered from seizure...