Word: dacron
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...dexterous scalpel and deft needle of Baylor University's professor of surgery have operated on more than 10,000 human hearts and arteries. From the far corners of the earth the great and the humble have traveled to Texas to have Surgeon DeBakey patch up their arteries with Dacron or implant artificial valves of plastic and sophisticated alloys in their hearts...
This season the industry's ugly duckling is getting the full beauty treatment by manufacturers intent on covering the whole market. The thermal now comes in wool, rayon, Dacron, Creslan and Acrilan, as well as the popular cotton, and in shades like curry, persimmon, melon, hollyhock, sand and avocado. It may be bound in velvet or nylon suede, patterned in flowers and leaves, checks and tweeds, stripes and plaids...
...like a sheet of waxed paper, serves to correct a different type of brain problem: when part of the brain's parchmentlike covering, the dura mater, is damaged or destroyed, the brain tissues and fluids are kept from bulging or leaking out by a Silastic sheet backed with Dacron...
Parts of major arteries, including the biggest of all, the aorta, are far easier to deal with. They are regularly replaced or bypassed with grafts of Dacron knit such as was used in surgery on the Duke of Windsor. Electrical pacemakers to regulate or replace the beat of a faltering heart have by now been implanted under the abdominal skin of 10,000 patients, with leads to their hearts; all these devices are encased in Silastic because of its inertness...
...cover it with skin grafts. For men who have undergone castration because of cancer, there are artificial testicles of the same or a similar material. Artificial breasts are now made of a soft silicone-rubber sack that holds a silicone gel, and they have a backing of Dacron for attachment to the chest wall...