Word: diaphragmic
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Striking Rojas in the abdomen, the .45-cal. slug shattered the spleen, then ripped through the diaphragm, punctured the left ventricle-the heart's major pumping chamber-and entered the aorta, the main artery of the body. Like a log in a swift stream, it was carried by the blood round the aorta's bend, down the chest into the left iliac, a major blood vessel feeding the leg, where it finally came to rest. Had the bullet taken a different course-blocking an artery to the head, say-Rojas would have died immediately...
...unlike Morse code, that race along the glass "wire." At the end of their journey, these light pulses are picked up by a photodetector, which converts them back to electrical pulses. These, in turn, are fed into a decoder for translation into an electrical signal that vibrates a diaphragm in the receiver, reproducing the voice...
...hassle to get the pill or the diaphragm at UHS," Blevins says. Fitting a diaphragm "is something that takes more than just a minute," however, and is much better done on an appointment basis, perhaps with some previous information available, she says. For the pill, Brown says "most anyone at Harvard can get it by asking for it. We don't question the propriety or the morality...
Winig says he offers advice to those unsure about birth control after what he calls the "front-line"--the internists and Bisbee--talk to the patients. Winig says he recommends IUDs as good alternatives to the pill or the diaphragm, and finds that two-thirds of the women to whom he has given IUDs are happy with them. Only one-third have asked for them to be removed, he says. The removal is a far easier process than insertion; the UHS emergency room can remove them if necessary, Winig says...
Unwanted pregnancies at Harvard, Wacker says, are fairly rare--resulting usually because the user's birth control method has failed, and not because the couples were unprotected. Students who forget to take the pill regularly, or those who inserted their diaphragm poorly, are the cause for many of the unwanted pregnancies, Wacker says...