Word: ducts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dougherty's salivary glands (there are three on each side) and reroute it so that the saliva would flow into the right eye socket and restore his vision. In a delicate, 2½-hour operation, Surgeon Mays cut into Dougherty's right cheek, freed the parotid salivary duct almost back to the ear, cut it free from the inside of the mouth with a bit of mucous membrane attached, then led it to the eye's outer corner...
...like your work?" said Prometheus one day, apropos of nothing except a slight tickling of the bile duct...
...Jamaica tan, Eden was still a very sick man. In Jamaica he had suffered a recurrence of fever and of the stomach trouble for which he had earlier been operated on three times-the last time in a delicate and rare operation to remove an obstacle in the bile duct, at Boston's famed Lahey Clinic in 1953. Reports trickled back from the Caribbean that he had sometimes waked shouting in the night. At Cabinet meetings, colleagues noticed that his cheeks were hollow, his face lined, his eyes tired and lackluster. "He could still lose his temper...
...will gross an estimated $52 million annually: $22 million from the hotels, $15 million from the restaurants and $15 million from two food companies now owned by Childs. By putting all companies under one corporate roof, Sonnabend will make a fat tax saving. He will be able to de duct Childs' losses from the hotels' profits (1954: about $2,000,000), thereby add a king-sized fillip to his earnings...
...William Christensen, professor of radiology, ran the first program and showed a mass of X rays to help physicians diagnose their patients' complaints from shadows showing calcification. One particularly clear example: spotting a case of diabetes from chalky deposits in the sperm duct. Only once did Dr. Christensen defer to the possible presence of laymen in the audience, by describing a fetus shown in the womb as "a little stranger." On the other hand, there was nothing that the accidental, nonprofessional viewer could have found upsetting...