Word: fibrin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More than 50 Fellows are now teaching in colleges and universities, and others hold industrial and government positions. They have published over 50 books and hundreds of technical papers: former members have developed synthetic quinine and developed "fibrin film" for use in brain operations...
...Other promising materials with similar properties: fibrin foam, soluble cellulose...
...Fibrin film, fibrin foam and thrombin (TIME, March 20). Fibrin film is used as a substitute for brain covering ; fibrin foam and thrombin stop oozing blood...
...Fibrin Foam is made of blood fibrinogen. It has a spongy consistency. Soaked before using in a solution of thrombin, it becomes fibrin, the framework of blood clots. The foam quickly and permanently stops oozing from small blood vessels and large veins, which no other material has ever been able to do. The surgeons sometimes leave some foam inside when a wound is closed. They found that the foam is rapidly absorbed...
...Fibrin Film, also made of fibrinogen, is used to replace lost dura, the coating of the brain. It disappears in a few months, is completely replaced by a living membrane of approximately its own thickness...