Word: edema
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...never looked like Arnold Schwarzenegger or achieved immortality. He died at 32 under a cloud of controversy, in his mistress's home, of a brain edema, which an autopsy said was caused by a strange reaction to a prescription painkiller called Equagesic. At that point, he had starred in only three released movies, one of which was unwatchably bad, the other two of which were watchably bad. Although he was a popular movie star in Asia, his New York Times obit ran only eight sentences, one of which read "Vincent Canby, the film critic of the New York Times, said...
DIED. NICOLETTE LARSON, 45, pop songstress who put the country in Neil Young's California rock, taking his Lotta Love to the Top 10 in the 1970s; of cerebral edema; in Los Angeles...
DIED. EDWIN ROSARIO, 34, troubled boxer; of acute pulmonary edema that may have been caused by drugs; in Toa Baja, Puerto Rico. Thrice world lightweight champion, Rosario was brought low by cocaine abuse in the early 1990s...
DIED. ANTON SZANDOR LAVEY, 67, melodramatic founder of the Church of Satan who played the devil onscreen; of pulmonary edema; in San Francisco. The role stuck: LaVey kept a pet tarantula and roamed the streets in a black cape...
Following Pellett's presentation, Fawzi elaborated on the mission's findings. She noted widespread cases of marasmus (severe malnutrition) and kwashiorkor (edema and swelling of the body) throughout the country...