Word: defectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...children and had two granddaughters marry respectively a Romanov and Spanish Habsburg. Yet the disease is anything but royal and far from rare. It affects one out of every 20,000 males and can strike anyone-even those with no previous hemophilia history-who inherits the genetic defect preventing the production of certain blood fractions involved in the clotting process. Hemophiliacs do not bleed more easily than others; they merely bleed longer. They do not die from pinpricks or cut fingers. What hemophiliacs fear more than knives or scissors are the internal hemorrhages that can cripple and destroy joints, ruin...
Intricate Installation. Another ingenious technique for treating patients with ailing hearts has been developed by surgeons in New Orleans. Doctors had assumed that Suzette Marie Creppel, 17, would eventually have to undergo open-heart surgery to correct an atrial septal defect-a hole in the wall separating the two upper chambers of her heart. But Drs. Terry King and Noel Mills of the Ochsner Foundation Hospital decided to try to plug the leak with two tiny, round patches-and without surgery...
...When he was 18 and in the Merchant Marine, William Fertig of Franklinville, N.J., entered the U.S. Public Health Service Hospital on New York City's Staten Island to have an eye defect corrected. But before surgery, Fertig suffered a rare reaction to a widely used general anesthetic. His body temperature rose and remained at 108°, long enough to cause extensive brain damage. As a result, Fertig, now 24, is blind, cannot speak, and is paralyzed from the neck down. After bringing suit against the Federal Government, charging that doctors at the hospital had not monitored the administration...
...wounded or captured. Reports filtered into the capital of remnants of three battalions, totaling 400 or 500 men, who surrendered en masse to the Khmer Rouge. Their action raises the suggestion that if things get much worse, large numbers of government troops might be tempted to surrender, vanish or defect to the other side...
...overkill of advertisements makes the "heartbreak of psoriasis" sound like something of a joke. But psoriasis is no laughing matter to those who are afflicted by it. The disease, which may result from a genetic defect, causes red, scaly eruptions-mainly on the scalp, elbows, knees, back and buttocks -and untold misery to its victims. In the U.S. alone, some 5 to 8 million psoriasis sufferers spend an estimated $1 billion a year in their search for relief...