Word: flaccidity
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Three hours after the operation began, when Dr. Olivecrona was delicately prying out the red tumor from the flaccid tissue of Karinthy's cerebellum, the poet lost consciousness. Three weeks later, after an uneventful convalescence, happy Poet Karinthy went back to his Budapest cafés, heard no more nonexistent locomotives. But two-and-a-half years after his ordeal he died of a heart attack...
...Bronx doctor who said he had examined Mrs. Geraci seven years ago declared she had been afflicted with "flip walk," result of flaccid paralysis. At week's end no physician had publicly attested her foot healed...
...first general elections brought N. M. U. feuds frothing to the surface last week. When the ballots were counted, Joe Curran, unopposed in the election, was nominally on top as president. But under him were four hostile members of the new national council of nine officers. Beefy, flaccid Fireman Jerome King defeated Communist Jack Lawrenson for secretary treasurer. Two others also were out & out anti-Curran men. A fourth leaned not so much against popular Joe Curran as against the Communist friends to whom he, though no Communist, turned for counsel in the union's early days. Eager...
...Lazy A ranch at Santa Susana, Calif., Producer Buell started filming the first all-midget photoplay ever made. He had troubles. The flaccid little people tumbled off ponies, had trouble handling man-sized six guns, had attacks of temperament and sunburn. Finally, at a cost of almost $100,000 and many a headache, the film was finished...
Poliomyelitis is transmitted by a virus. Polio-encephalitis appears to be caused by a streptococcus. Dr. Edward Carl Rose-now of the Mayo Foundation cultured streptococci from inflamed muscles, injected the culture into monkeys, reproduced the disease in them. In infantile paralysis, the affected muscles are withered and flaccid; in polio-encephalitis they are not-but they are so acutely inflamed and painful that spasms often occur and any movement is impossible. Furthermore, the seat of infantile paralysis is in the spinal cord, whereas the seat of polio-encephalitis is in the brain...