Word: diaphragmic
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...gullet or stomach), from infection, or from the storage of excess water, as in the edema that goes with congestive heart failure. The faltering engine gradually loses its power to deliver blood-borne nutrients to the muscles. Then the most vulnerable points, said Dr. Moore, are in the diaphragm and the muscles between the ribs. And the effects are most severe on breathing and coughing. The cause of death in surgical patients, he said, is seldom found in the heart, brain, kidneys or liver. For the final mechanism of death, surgeons should look to the lungs...
...notable because she sang the role of the determinedly virginal Egyptian queen while six months pregnant. "I have much less stage fright with baby in me, because I think of him and not the audience," she explained. "I took care not to push my high notes, because too much diaphragm might bump him on the head. He was quiet while I was singing, but as soon as I stopped he started to applaud with his feet...
...Nobody," says a fellow Bourbon Street trumpeter, "ever outblew Al." Even allowing for civic partisanship, the boast is not unreasonable. New Orleans Trumpeter Al ("The Monster") Hirt, 38, is a "center-lip" man who blows straight from the diaphragm and generates such a wind that trying to top him, testifies another associate, is like "blowing down the throat of a hurricane." In recent months, the hurricane has swirled through Las Vegas (The Dunes), Manhattan (Basin Street East) and the TV networks with an impact that has made Trumpeter Hirt one of the hottest properties in jazz...
...eloquence and fervor that reminded middle-aged listeners of the young F.D.R., and touched off wild ovations. Again, he plodded through his speeches as unenthusiastically as his listeners responded to them. Under the direction of Voice Coach Blair McClosky, the Kennedy voice was usually well modulated, right from the diaphragm. But occasionally it launched into uncontrolled stridency...
...Violent Instrument. Essentially, a shock tube is a strong-walled metal pipe, a few inches in diameter, from which the air can be pumped. At one end, a section is walled off by a copper diaphragm: that section is filled with an explosive mixture of oxygen and hydrogen. At the other end is a vacuum tank, and just ahead of it is a tiny nose-cone test model. When an electric spark explodes the oxygen-hydrogen, it bursts through the diaphragm and into the vacuum. Ahead of it rushes a hot shock wave that hits the test model at actual...