Word: flexion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thatcher stitches the bottom of the new finger tendon to the large master tendon in the palm of the hand. With careful exercise, said Dr. Thatcher, natural flexion is usually re-established within six weeks...
...suddenly drew back its head, leaving both fore feet extended in front. As the stimulus ceased, the cat lifted its left forefoot and held it up for 30 seconds. At one minute after the stimulus the left forefoot was again lifted gradually until it was held high in flexion. The foot and leg seemed sensitive to touch. The foot was gradually returned to the table but remained tense. At one minute 50 seconds after the stimulus the cat turned its head to the right and the right forefoot began lifting and appeared hypersensitive. After a short while this foot...
...other reversions of mental state: not only was there a physical extension of the limbs, but with it came a change in the general mental attitude. The natural apprehension lest some person alien to the experiment should enter the room and find me quite unclad disappeared-just as flexion was changed to extension, so the natural modesty was changed to-well, I don't know what. Clearly one should be very cautious about taking these liberties with one's mind, and that is the point; the higher parts of the central nervous system were the first things...
Whatever their opinions about Fascism in America, Harvard students are shown by Coop sales to prefer "It Can't Happen Here" to other new flexion releases...
...Truslow operated on her right shin bone, just below the knee, to correct the knock-knee, knee flexion and outward flexion of that...