Word: fetal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...womb. There is something beating in me and through me-my mother's heart. I can't see-and it feels as if I've got no mouth." He asked her in what position she found herself. She answered, "Curled up," and she "immediately assumed the fetal position." When Dr. Kelsey tried to get this patient to describe her existence before the "oneness," she babbled some seemingly incompatible impressions: "It was dark, yet filled with colors of indescribable beauty; there was complete silence, yet the place was filled with heavenly music; it was still, yet everything...
While Sergeant Kerr chain-smoked and watched nervously on a TV set in the hospital basement, the cameras showed his wife Lillian on the operating table, virtually obscured by doctors and nurses in close-order formation. There was a short explanation of what was going to happen and the fetal heartbeat pounded over the air. Then the cameras switched to the hospital's up-to-the-minute facilities for care of premature babies. Only the TV crew and newsmen saw the actual incision in Mrs. Kerr's abdomen and the quick, dramatic extraction of the full-term baby...
...analyzing them: the ears are usually malformed, there may be opacities in the eye lens, one of the nasal bones is usually absent, and the middle phalanx of the fifth finger is generally stunted. The clue: all these signs affect tissues which develop at about the eighth week of fetal life. In mongolism victims, the body structures formed earlier than that are usually normal, said Dr. Ingalls, and so are those formed later...
...biochemical upset, transient vitamin or enzyme deficiency, or oxygen lack." The likelihood that oxygen shortage may be the villain in many cases is heightened, said Dr. Ingalls, by the fact that mongolism often results from a pregnancy marked by early vaginal bleeding, and this bleeding might starve the fetal brain of oxygen...
Phumiphon was desolated. Wandering about the palace grounds, he saw a guard turn a group of peasants away from Ananda's funeral urn (in which his remains were folded into the traditional fetal position), because the peasants were not dressed in proper mourning. Brusquely Phumiphon ordered the gates opened to them. Two months after Ananda's death, Phumiphon left "to resume his studies" in Switzerland. Two million tearful Siamese lined his road to the airport, casting jasmine flowers under the wheels of his car. Ananda's funeral was postponed four years until Phumiphon got back...