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...aneurysm had increased in size, and within a week had grown bigger than an orange. The beat of the blood pulsing through it could be felt by the doctor's hand. And it was in an especially dangerous location, below the branching of the kidney arteries (see diagram). It was time for surgery, but there did not seem to be much of a rush -the duke went to Houston by slow, jolting train...
...steal involves one of the arteries that normally help to supply blood to the brain. Besides the well-publicized carotid arteries, there are two lesser-known vertebral arteries, each of which branches off from one of the subclavian arteries in the shoulders and ascends to the brain (see diagram). These arteries unite at the base of the brain to form the basilar artery, and in a healthy person they supply up to 20% of the brain's blood. Normally, the blood in the vertebral arteries flows in one direction: upward, to the brain...
...steroid, one of a huge and diverse class of chemicals-including many fatty substances and most adrenal and sex hormones-having one thing in common: a four-ring cluster of carbon atoms, known as "the steroid nucleus." Other attached atoms give each steroid its distinctive character (see diagram). By growing rat-liver cells in the test tube, Dr. Bloch learned that they make cholesterol from the much simpler acetate ion (acetic acid minus a hydrogen ion). "My work since then," he says, "has been on the processes that the cell uses to manufacture the cholesterol molecule. This is a fantastically...
...these and several other scenes, Director Sidney Lumet rises vigorously to the dread occasion. Item: the large animated map, on which enormous aerial battles are imagined in diagram and followed as they flow, is a magnificent narrative conceit. But during the last half of the film the illusion of reality slowly collapses into a steaming mess of socio-political platitudes ("In a nuclear war, everybody loses"). If Dr. Strangelove, as some think, made a serious subject silly, Fail Safe too often makes a serious subject soggy. The customers begin to yawn and then to smile. Indeed, in the final scene...
...from the explosion had slashed through the cornea (outer covering) of Jimmy's eye, through the dark-brown iris, through the lens and the gelatinous filler behind it, until it had come to rest just short of the retina, the screen at the back of the eyeball (see diagram). Repairing the cornea was routine. But find ing the object that had made the wound -and was still in the eyeball - was another matter. All standard techniques failed...