Word: ducted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cohn such an "unobstructed tear-duct lad" is more likely to be one of "the pinchers and garter-snappers of America." Says he: "Recently at a dinner in Washington, the conversation was suddenly stilled as a woman loudly said to the statesman who sat at her right, 'Hands on the table, Senator...
...unable to burn up the sugar they consume, it looked as though the islands in a normal pancreas secreted some substance which acted like a spark plug. What was the spark plug? That same night, Banting read in a medical journal that if you tie off a pancreas duct, the digestive juice cells shrivel up, die. That gave him the great idea-how to get the digestive juices out of the way, to get at the spark-plug chemical. He wrote three sentences in a notebook: "Tie off pancreatic duct of dogs. Wait six to eight weeks for degeneration. Remove...
...tone up the whole body, stimulate masculine characteristics. Both types of tissue, according to Steinach, nourish at the expense of the other. Hence he conceived the idea of stimulating hormone flow by damming up the "antagonistic" seminal canals. This he did by ligating (tying off) and severing the main duct of the canals, known as the vas deferens. This "Steinach vasoligature" is a simple operation, takes only 20 minutes...