Word: distentione
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>Sensitivity of the eye, like that of other sense organs, decreases with distention of the viscera. "It is important in responsible reconnaissance operations that the visceral organs of the abdomen and the pelvis should not be overcongested."
One of the strangest of children's diseases is celiaca, a lingering intestinal ailment which produces diarrheaandmuscular weakness, stunts growth for several years. Victims of celiaca cannot utilize fats and carbohydrates; most sugars ferment in their intestines, cause enormous distention of the abdomen.
> Great-grandfather of all headaches is the torture of migraine, caused by distention of blood vessels in the scalp. Its victims are agonizingly sensitive to light and sound. Injections of vitamin BI sometimes give relief (TIME, Feb. 16).
Here is the final rampart on which Mr. Lippmann must defeat his distention between the New Deal overhead control and liberalism's social control--i.e. commissions at this point. He answers that the officials who inspect, prosecute, and administer must be regarded as exercising merely certain rights and duties instead...
Drs. William Russell Levis & Edward Lewis Axelman of Philadelphia call theirs a "Modern Method for Prevention of Postoperative Distention." They depend upon a newly synthesized drug to keep the bowels moving and expelling any gas which may form. The drug: dimethyl-carbamic ester of 3-hydroxyphenyl-trimethyl ammonium methyl-sulphate...