Word: diaphragmic
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...rescuer reaches both arms around him, makes a fist and grasps it with the other hand. Then, placing the thumb side of that fist against the victim's abdomen above the navel but below the rib cage, the rescuer presses his fist sharply upward. This elevates the diaphragm and compresses the lungs, increasing the air pressure within the windpipe and forcing the food particle out like a cork from a champagne bottle. Since Heimlich began popularizing it a year and a half ago, his hug of life has been used on some 374 potential choking and drowning victims...
What concerns Yale officials is the inclusion of two photographs illustrating the use of birth control devices, Carr said. One depicts a woman inserting a diaphragm and the other shows a man putting on a condom...
...Women's Community Health Center, located at 137 Hampshire Street, will provide general and gynecological examinations, birth control information, IUD and diaphragm fittings, pap smears and tests for pregnaacy and venereal disease, Elizabeth A. Sommers, spokesman for the center, said yesterday...
...opened his comeback tour in a steady drizzle at Yale Bowl in New Haven, Conn. The first number, appropriately Let It Rain, revealed a richer, stronger voice. From watching Stevie Wonder sing, Clapton says, he learned to breathe in great drafts from his diaphragm. "It sends the blood rushing to my head and gives me an incredible high," he laughs. "I sometimes get dizzy onstage...
...even have a boy friend. But I had myself fitted for a diaphragm. I had to feel that in some way I was part...