Word: diaphragms
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...work at a fund-raising dinner. Unexpectedly, he had a patient wheeled into the ballroom. The patient: Bertrand Proulx, 24, a Quebec truck driver whose spinal cord was injured in an accident four years ago, had not been able to move his hands or elbows and breathed with his diaphragm because he could not expand his chest...
...Christians, we have felt impelled to state without reservation that it is a glorious gift of God." When the British woman's magazine Nova asked a mother what she would tell her daughter about sex when she reached 16, the mother replied: "Tell her? Probably buy her a diaphragm...
...hiccup is an involuntary contraction of the diaphragm that causes an abrupt intake of breath. An instant later, and also involuntarily, the opening in the larnyx (the glottis) closes and cuts off the flow of air, thus creating the audible hic. To most persons, it is merely annoying. But if it continues for days, it can be seriously weakening, as it was in 1954 for Pope Pius XII. More common and at least as worrisome is the effect on patients undergoing surgery, especially on the torso. The spasms complicate the surgeon's delicate maneuvers; during postoperative recovery, they...
...speech, Baird explained the methods of using the diaphragm, cervical cap, pill, intra-uteral device, creams, jellies, foams, and male prophylactics. He said that many college students have false or incomplete ideas about birth control, and claimed that Harvard University students have come to him for advice about abortions...
Whatever their shortcomings, the pills are unquestionably superior to all other contraceptives. The condom, still the bestseller (almost 2 billion sold all over the world, 400 million in the U.S. last year), is unesthetic. Even more than the diaphragm, it requires interruption of a normal progression to perform an antaphrodisiac rite...