Word: fetuses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...riots-were unwilling to fight their own people; the brunt fell on British troops and police. Flinging Coke bottles and stones, the mob stormed down narrow Kyrenia Street to the house of the Turkish Cypriot leader, Dr. Fazil Kuchuk, a physician whose fancy it is to keep a bottled fetus at each end of his consulting-room mantel...
...Ohio State University's Professor (of Pediatrics) Hilda Knobloch told it, she and Psychiatrist Benjamin Pasamanick had reasoned that more mentally deficient children would be born in late summer and early fall, because virus infections, which can damage the fetus, are commonest in winter. But when they checked the birth dates of nearly 6,000 mentally deficient children born in Columbus from 1913 through 1948, they found, on the contrary, least mental deficiency among babies born in August, September and October. It was commonest among those born in the year's first quarter, with the peak among February...
Holy Cross doctors took X rays which indicated stomach cancer, and incidentally showed a stonelike mass, 6 in. long, in the abdomen. Dr. Edward J. Krol and colleagues decided to remove it. The object, they report in the Illinois Medical Journal, was a lithopedion (stone child), a petrified fetus of three to four months' gestation. The doctors' conclusion: what had troubled Mrs. W. 37 years ago was not the flu but an ectopic pregnancy, in which the fertilized ovum had lodged in one of the Fallopian tubes. As the fetus grew, it burst the tube and escaped into...
Walter Kerr is a prolific writer not well enough recognized in the American theatre. A master craftsman, his Herculean fetus spawned in New England's Zeusian thigh is a lusty, virile creation. He manifests a through knowledge of dramatic styles from Aeschylus to Arthur Miller, and a comprehensive knowledge of the character and literature of each period of American development...
...terms abortion and miscarriage. Many doctors use "abortion" to describe a delivery in pregnancy's first three months, "miscarriage" for one in the next three months, "prematurity" for one in the seventh and eighth months. Dr. Javert views "spontaneous abortion" and "miscarriage" as synonyms covering delivery of a fetus in its first 22 weeks, when it cannot possibly survive...