Word: diaphragmic
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...Diaphragm Power. Elizabeth Flynn came young to radicalism. The daughter of an Irish nationalist from Galway. she was born in Concord, N.H., in 1890, educated in Bronx schools, and became a Socialist at 15 under her mother's maiden name of Gurley. A slim, blue-eyed girl with soft brown hair who wore a flaming red tie around her shirtwaist collar, she demanded among other things that all children be supported by the Government, thus freeing women of dependence...
Another serious condition that can be mistaken for simple heartburn is a hiatus hernia-a defect in the diaphragm where the gullet (esophagus) passes through, just above the stomach. This permits part of the stomach to poke upward into the chest cavity and spill digestive juices into the gullet. Pope Pius XII suffered from a hiatus hernia for a long time before it was correctly diagnosed and treated, and the condition is by no means rare...
Although no one yet knows just how IUCDS prevent conception, it is certain that-unlike the diaphragm, which covers the cervix-they do not prevent passage of the sperm into the uterus and along the Fallopian tube to meet the egg. Since they definitely trigger excessive contractions of the uterine muscles and of the Fallopian tubes, they may cause displacement of the egg before it has time to be fertilized or to settle in the wall of the womb...
There is no doubt about IUCDS' relatively high effectiveness. If 100 wives use no contraceptives, 90 will become pregnant in a year; with the rhythm method, 40 will, and with diaphragm or condoms, from two to 20. Among 100 women who can retain IUCDS, there is, on the average, only one pregnancy a year. That is as near perfection as the protection from the pills...
...pointer, Dr. Gattegno lets students discover with delight that strings of sounds make words, then whole sentences, including such swinging examples as "Pat met on a mat a man as fat as Tim." The decipherability of language thus established, the drill moves on to tougher orthography: weigh, height, eye, diaphragm, for example...