Word: fibrous
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...been called the secret disease because the progression is slow, steady and silent. Gradually, over a period of many years, atherosclerosis chokes off the flow of life-sustaining blood. The disease, resulting from the buildup of fibrous material, or plaque, in the arteries, has been killing people for centuries. Scientists have found plaque in the arteries of an Egyptian mummy dating from approximately 100 B.C. Leonardo da Vinci described atherosclerosis in his Dell'Anatomia, identifying it as the cause of a "slow death without any fever" that afflicts the elderly. It was not until this century that scientists began...
...writes. "At the conclusion of all our studies we must try once again to experience the human soul as soul, and not just as a buzz of bioelectricity: the human will as will, and not just as a surge of hormones: the human heart not as a fibrous, sticky pump, but as the metaphoric organ of understanding...
...Biomass, or organic material from plants and garbage, has provided the most encouraging results thus far. The burning of bagasse, the brownish fibrous residue from sugar cane, began in the early 1970s when the Environmental Protection Agency ordered a halt to the dumping of 2.7 million tons of cane waste per year into the Pacific Ocean. With a little help from the Government and a capital investment of some $25 million, planters discovered that a ton of bagasse produces the equivalent electricity of 1 bbl. of oil. Bagasse now provides 7% of Hawaii's electricity needs. But the state...
...them from puberty. Initially, 121 had cervical ectopy, a condition in which misplaced glandular tissue grows on the cervix. But subsequent examinations revealed that this tissue was being replaced gradually; in many of the young women the ectopy disappeared. At the start of the study, 123 women had fibrous ridges growing around their cervical walls; this "hood" later receded in 52% and vanished in 28%. But the good news has a bad side. If DES daughters lose their abnormal cervical "markers" and neglect checkups, doctors may not monitor them for another problem linked to the hormone: a high risk...