Word: fibrous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stool near the operating table. He had pad and pencil to picture the entire operation. Dr. Sweet jabbed a local anesthetic into Warden Lawes's leg. The Warden winced. The Surgeon sliced. The Warden felt nothing. The Surgeon clamped blood vessels, sliced some more, reached a fibrous capsule which enclosed the "tumor...
...heart expand comfortably. Often enough to concern doctors the sacks become inflamed, from pneumonia, rheumatic fever and other infectious diseases. The sacks may stick together. Or the outer sack may adhere to the inside of the chest wall or to the upper side of the diaphragm. Or fibrous bands may develop and constrict the heart. During early pericardiac inflammation, Dr. Lewis Atterbury Conner of Cornell University pumps a little nitrogen-rich air between the two sacks. The gas holds the tissues apart until the inflammation goes away. Inflammation causes an exudation from the sacks. Doctors have merry names to describe...
Adrenal Glands are two small yellowish bodies, shaped like cocked hats, which fit tightly on top of each kidney. Each gland has three general parts-a coating of fibrous material, a centre (the medulla) and between the two a cortex (inner bark, as it were). The adrenals have the richest blood supply of any of the body parts. In proportion to their weight more blood pours through them in a given time than through any other organ. Their wholesome activity governs a person's entire health...