Word: faceting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that is just one facet of The Plan--Plan Azev to be precise--that threatens to sap America's international influence. This KGB grand design includes infiltrating Western governments with moles--double agents--who do things like conveying classified documents through microdots on the back of chewing gum wrappers sent in packages to orphans in East Germany. No kidding...
...that is just one facet of The Plan--Plan Azev to be precise--that threatens to sap America's international influence. This KGB grand design includes infiltrating Western governments with moles--double agents--who do things like conveying classified documents through microdots on the back of chewing gum wrappers sent in packages to orphans in East Germany. No kidding...
...1970s, some doctors became convinced that there is another source of backaches that rivals herniated discs as a cause of grief. It is called the facet-joint syndrome. Facets...
...small flat surfaces on the vertebral arch (the knobby outer structure of the arch can be felt by touching the back). In the normal, healthy back, the facets of one vertebra line up precisely with those of adjoining vertebrae, creating smoothly functioning facet joints. But sometimes a facet dislocates; all it may take is a sudden twist or bend. The bone may begin to press on the tiny nerves that run to it from the spinal cord. Like a herniated disc, facet-joint syndrome can be accompanied by severe pain...
...clinics are unconventional, at least by ordinary medical standards. They include hypnosis, biofeedback and acupuncture. Some new approaches are also being explored. To numb sensitive areas of the back by killing nerves, the pain doctors have been injecting alcohol into the tiny nerves of the vertebrae. For problems with facet joints, they sometimes insert heated needles into the area's nerves, an acupuncture-like technique called surgical diathermy or facet denervation. Another popular tool of the pain clinicians: pocket-size electrical stimulators that patients carry around with them. Held against a painful area these gadgets provide a little shock...