Word: edema
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...draws the beginnings of a new career as the protagonist of cultishly successful martial-arts movies. Soon, however, he is paying the accustomed costs of stardom: turning into a temperamental workaholic, neglecting his family. Just as it seems that superstardom is about to end his problems, a cerebral edema ends his life at a mere 32 years...
DIED. Shawn Stephens Lewis, 25, Detroit secretary who last June became the fifth wife of renegade rockabilly Singer Jerry Lee Lewis, 47; of pulmonary edema, a condition that causes the lungs to fill with fluid and is sometimes related to a drug overdose; in Nesbit, Miss. The tempestuous, controversial Lewis attributed his recovery from emergency stomach surgery in 1981 to Shawn's loving support. Sudden death, however, has haunted the singer's life: a three-year-old son drowned in the family swimming pool in 1962; another son, his 19-year-old namesake, was killed...
...cutting energy requirements to the minimum. Pulse rate and blood pressure fall and body temperature drops. Men become impotent; women stop menstruating, and nursing mothers fail to produce milk; children stop growing. Mental and physical lassitude set in, and individuals become obsessed with finding food. Some malnourished people develop edema, a swelling, especially in the joints and abdomen...
...critics can take comfort in what used to be written about Gustave Courbet. Consider the broadside he got from Alexandre Dumas fils in 1871: "Under what gardener's bell, with the help of what manure, as a result of what mixture of wine, beer, corrosive mucus and flatulent edema can have grown this sonorous and hairy pumpkin, this aesthetic belly, this imbecilic and impotent incarnation of the Self...
...something of a medical miracle that the frail Caudillo had survived so long as that. In the 34 days since Franco first collapsed with chest pains, he had undergone three operations that attempted to stem massive internal hemorrhaging and had suffered variously from Parkinson's disease, phlebitis, pulmonary edema and kidney failure. Even in conservative Catholic Spain, some questioned whether the 32 attending doctors might have striven too earnestly to keep the failing dictator alive. His nephew Nicolás Franco answered: "I think it was constructive. It gave Spain time to adjust to the idea that we would...