Word: fibrous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week of healing. The dead muscle tissue in President Eisenhower's heart had been carried away in the blood stream by "scavenger" cells, and new building cells were coming in to set up the fibrous tissue that would be a scar on the front wall of his heart...
...medical statisticians were already calculating the cost. Of premature babies who weighed 4 Ibs. or less at birth, one out of every eight reared in hospital incubators was going blind. Suddenly, and for no apparent reason, the blood vessels of the retina would fan out in wild profusion. Fibrous tissue growing behind the lens would cloud the eyes and ruin the retina. Doctors were baffled. They could do little more than tag the disease with a name, retrolental fibroplasia (R.L.F...
...Margaret and Mary Gibb, 41-year-old twins joined at the base of the spine, both had to be anesthetized at Boston's New England Deaconess Hospital for famed Surgeon Frank Lahey to remove a fibrous tumor from Margaret's abdomen. After the two-hour operation, both sisters were reported doing fine...
...Early changes in the arteries (i.e., those often found in the coronary vessels of youngsters) do not involve cholesterol. First to appear is a slight thickening of the innermost layer of the arterial tubing. This stage is marked by an increase in the amount of mucoprotein (sugar protein), by fibrous growths of long, flat cells, and by breaks in the elastic tissue fibers. At this stage there is usually no cholesterol or other fat in the artery walls...
...second stage is marked by a further accumulation of sugar protein and the formation of hard, fibrous plaques in the walls, and fat (sometimes cholesterol) is always present. Finally, in far-advanced arteriosclerosis, parts of the artery wall become hard and glassy looking. Often there are deposits of calcium. And large globules of fat (including cholesterol) help to narrow the arterial tube so that the blood slows down and may form a dangerous or fatal clot...