Word: fistulas
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What ails Fidel Castro? The diagnosis so far, according to word passed along by one of Castro's consulting physicians, is that Cuba's Premier has a complex of ills of the lower alimentary canal, including hemorrhoids, diverticulitis of the colon and an abscess with fistula...
...matter becomes fixed in small, hernia-like outward bulges of the intestinal wall that sometimes develop where blood vessels enter. Bacteria multiply in the waste, and the intestinal wall becomes inflamed and infected. Untreated, the infection may rupture and form an abscess outside the wall of the colon. A fistula is an abnormal passage that burrows into another organ or to the outside of the body. Symptoms in severe cases of diverticulitis:* nausea, vomiting, pain, constipation or diarrhea, chills and fever. Possible treatments: antibiotics, special diet, surgery...
There were no spectators to get in the surgeon's way as he operated on a rectal fistula one morning last week at the University of Kansas Medical Center. "Yet 140 students watched his every move and each turn of the knife more closely than if they had been jostling each other and craning their necks to look over his arm. The students were in an auditorium, 100 yards away, watching the operation on color-television receivers...
...child (the only survivor of seven) "he tended towards consumption and dropsy, was subject to violent fluctuations of temperature, suffered a contraction of the nerves, and had a fistula in one eye." Able at 12 to recite Pope's Homer and the Arabian Nights, he was soon so deep in Roman history that he resented mealtime, could not go to sleep for thinking about discrepant history dates. Sent to Oxford as a gentleman scholar at 15. he had "no duties and many privileges." Discovering that nobody minded if he cut classes, he spent most of the school year traveling...
...women untimely graves. This presaged all of the marvelous surgery of the peritoneal interior. It is vision commanded by courage that sails into the domain of curative surgery. The art and genius of J. Marion Sims with the silver-wire suture made lacerated woman whole. The victim of vesicovaginal fistula was no longer a prisoner in her own house. She is rescued from her wretchedness by the most deli cate skill and the gentlest