Word: fluid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is no chance of making whole blood artificially. It contains many delicate chemicals, each of which fills some requirement of the body. Its living cells cannot be duplicated. If the patient has been bleeding seriously, either internally or externally, he needs the corpuscles as well as the fluid. Radiation damage often impairs the victim's ability to manufacture new blood corpuscles. In an atomic-bomb attack, tens of thousands of such cases would need whole blood-and nothing else would...
After two days of discussion, nobody seemed happy about the blueprint. The Methodists called for a "more definite plan" that would go into detail about procedures and describe more specifically the functions of bishops. The Disciples of Christ wanted the nomenclature kept "fluid and descriptive." The Congregationalists complained of ambiguity. Episcopal Bishop Stephen E. Keeler of Minnesota, present only as an observer, deplored the plan's cavalier treatment of the sacraments and its concept of the ministry. Methodist Bishop Oxnam (see below), en route to a World Council of Churches meeting in Paris, wrote that he was "confused...
Blood, for the most part, is a mixture of white cells, red cells and fluid serum. Leukemia, an invariably fatal form of cancer, is a disease in which the patient's blood becomes overloaded with certain types of white cells. For 100 years or more, doctors have accepted the theory that leukemia is caused by an unknown factor which goads the body into riotous overproduction of white cells. Last week, researchers at the University of California offered a new explanation...
...Advocate shades off into mediocrity. There is another long anecdote about Europe by Hona Karmel called "The Old Ignacy." Her material is rich, but she has a nasty habit of letting her writing smother it; when Miss Karmel talks about coffee, she calls it a "black fragrant fluid." Andrew Zimmer's introspective and involved story of a boy who has lost his father, "Sideways to the Sun," topples of its own length. A section of Hall's introduction to the new Advocate Anthology is straight and not always readable reporting, and its abrupt end smells of quick cutting work...
Wakening Discs. When the caterpillar is full-sized, its tissues dissolve to form a yolky fluid. The imaginal discs wake up suddenly. Nourished by the fluid, they burst into furious growth, constructing within the larva's old skin an entirely new insect: the hibernating pupa. Later, a similar burst of growth turns the pupa into the adult moth...