Word: edema
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...magic mountain may have taken offense at these pettifoggeries, because more ill fortune fell on the expedition. When Dr. Herrligkoffer returned, he suffered either a mild heart attack or pulmonary edema. Then the Italian, Leo Breitenberger, suffered a lung seizure, which was followed by a mental breakdown. Austrian Werner Haim sustained a severe leg injury, and several others fell ill. That left only two Austrians and the three British, who spent more time arguing over who was to lead than in actual climbing. The British quit in disgust, and soon the remaining Austrians were forced down by inclement weather...
...Pokhara, then hiked toward Dhaulagiri. By mid-April, they had established their first camp, at 12,400 ft., and were pressing on toward their next camp. Then came the first mishap: Deputy Leader William A. Read, of Moose, Wyo., was suddenly blinded in the right eye by pulmonary edema, which sometimes strikes men who go too high too fast. Read left to await evacuation...
Died. Red Foley, 58, who sang his way to the top of the country-and-Western music charts with Chattanooga Shoeshine Boy, Peace in the Valley and others; of pulmonary edema; in Fort Wayne...
...losing the war: slowly but surely, eight million Biafrans are starving to death. Gradually, the image of Biafra's human agony has unsettled the conscience of the world. That image is of Ibo infants and children with anguished, vacant eyes, distended bellies, shriveled chests and matchstick limbs crippled from edema. The world has protested in the form of silent marches of New Yorkers outside the United Nations building, impassioned debates in Britain's Parliament and West Germany's Bundestag, shillings and sixpences collected by Tanzanian schoolchildren and in the appeal of a "deeply distressed" Pope Paul VI. Despite the world...
...could tolerate. This proved to be highly variable. "But," said Colonel Brown, "we did not push if there was pain." One thing that spurred the servicemen on was that they had to be either up and in motion, or lying down with the leg elevated to avoid edema and other complications...