Word: extract
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Vital Gland. Last summer, Maggie was referred to Ammann, a specialist in pediatric immunology. When she failed to respond to injections of a white blood cell extract as a means of arousing immunity, Ammann realized that the problem was in her thymus gland-a butterfly-shaped bit of tissue that lies just behind the breastbone. The gland has a key role in the development of the body's immune responses.Tn one previous case, Ammann knew-implantation of a thymus from a miscarried fetus stimulated this process in a child born without the gland...
...American Review No. 10), a fevered collage of oldtime-radio-programs-as-later-day-confidence-men as they invade the life of a threatened Jewish father. It's Roth's particular talent (or, to be more exact, one of Roth's particular talents) to be able to extract what's most nightmarish in the onslaught of our national life and to try to exorcise the terror by blowing it up beyond all tenable proportions...
...series of controlled experiments lasting three months, the scientists gave 160 rats a marijuana extract and THC. a synthetic form of the drug. The preliminary results were dramatic. Twelve of the 40 rats given the strongest doses of pot died during the tests. Even those given lighter doses showed signs of bizarre behavior. As many as half the rats tested developed tremors...
Different Episodes. One sample that especially attracted their attention was the 8-ft.-long core that the astronauts had struggled to extract from the moon. In the first three of five core sections, they found 24 distinct layers of material. Just as tree rings reveal clues to yearly climate changes, each layer in the core should provide evidence of different episodes in the moon's history...
Arab Setbacks. The only concrete offer Sisco could extract from the hard-bargaining Israelis was a modest concession to withdraw five or six miles from the canal with the condition that no Egyptian soldiers cross to the east bank. When Sisco proposed a "symbolic" crossing of Egyptian troops to the east bank, Mrs. Meir replied quite sarcastically. She reminded him that last year, when Israel complained of massive Soviet missile movements near the canal in violation of the ceasefire, Sisco soothingly suggested that all those SA-3s were merely symbolic...