Word: fleshed
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Indeed, according to Wintemute, gunshot wounds are about 7 1/2 times as likely to result in death as attacks with a knife--and 145 times as likely as blows from feet or fists. Gunshots tear through flesh and bone with the force of a tornado, destroying everything in their path and, depending on the kind of bullet, spreading damage well beyond their trajectory...
From his experience with hundreds of gunshot victims, Wintemute knows only too well that their wounds are among the hardest for doctors to deal with. The gaping holes torn into the flesh by bullets of any kind can easily destroy major organs, unleash torrents of blood, produce severe infection and in general cause widespread bodily mayhem. Gunshot wounds also account for a major part of the rise in spinal injuries in the U.S.; even the grazing passage of a bullet along the spinal cord can be enough to cause paralysis. Two-thirds of gunshot victims do not live long enough...
...race to become the school's first-ever popularly elected president, the five candidates worked the room, pressing the flesh and getting out the word. If babies had been there, they would have been kissed...
...second time in six weeks, paramedics and police raced to handle grisly carnage on Jerusalem's streets: a little girl's body lying mangled in an alley, a headless corpse resting nearby, arms and legs scattered everywhere, blood sprayed on the front of a bank, bits of flesh left for ultra-Orthodox volunteers to scoop up for burial...
...grave, I'd have beautiful breasts," she recalls. But going from a 34B to a 36C seemed to bring on a plethora of problems: severe migraines, memory loss, aching joints and nerves so damaged that Laitinen was unaware that a hot skillet was searing her until she smelled burning flesh. Her cyst-riddled ovaries were removed, and she developed eight stomach tumors. "There's no history in my family, no reason for me to be ill," says Laitinen, 51. "There has to be something else...