Word: diaphragmic
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Marine captain who had been a Jap machine gunner's target about three hours earlier. Dr. John A. Harper held up the wounded man's slashed, liver-colored spleen: "We also took out a piece of kidney," he said, "and he has a bullet through his diaphragm and lung. He asked for a priest right away." Silvis pulled back the wounded man's eyelid and said: "He looks pretty good, though...
Died. Edward Bausch, 89, famed optical manufacturer (Bausch & Lomb) and inventor; after long illness; in Rochester, N.Y. His iris diaphragm shutter made the snapshot camera practical...
Captain Samuels turned up. He ended the hiccups just as he had before−by making an incision in Miss Mayer's chest and crushing the phrenic nerve which controls the diaphragm where all hiccups originate...
Curare does not act on the big nerve centers. It acts by breaking the connection between the nerve ends and the muscles they serve. First muscles affected are those of the head and neck; then the limbs are paralyzed, then the abdominal muscles, last of all the diaphragm and between-rib muscles which do the work of breathing. (The danger of the drug is that just a little more than enough to relax the abdominal muscles may paralyze breathing-therefore only expert anesthetists should use it.) Besides relaxing skeletal muscles, curare contracts the gut, making it easy to handle...
Alexander Graham Bell came to the Cooper house to show old Peter Cooper his telephone. The Hewitt boys studied it, cut out a wooden earpiece, made coils and a magnet, got a piece of black enameled iron from a tintype photographer for a diaphragm, and ran wires to the bed of their brother Erskine, who had scarlet fever, found they could talk to him without breaking quarantine. The doctor was astonished. Thomas Edison demonstrated his talking machine to Peter Cooper, and the boys copied that too. They used their telephone diaphragm and the cook's rolling pin, which they...