Word: fluid
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...order to establish a high infection rate in newborn monkeys, the scientists exposed the animals to the simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), whose behavior is similar to that of HIV, a virus which causes AIDS in humans. SIV was injected into the amniotic fluid, surrounding the fetus, during the late stages of pregnancy...
...Bakersfield, came down with valley fever in 1988. It spread into his brain membranes, causing a stroke. Today, although his paralysis is gone, he is still fighting the disease. Every Friday, Sanders has to go to his doctor's office for a cisternal tap, in which spinal fluid is removed, tested and mixed with amphotericin B for reinjection. There is no end in sight to the painful procedure...
Officials said most of the waste was removedsuccessfully with a cleaning fluid. Some of thewaste, however, seeped through cracks in the floortiles. Those tiles that could not be removed werecovered with plywood, which neutralizes theisotope...
...tube spilling onto the gallery floor and connecting the frame's top-left to its bottom-right corner. But again, there's a fleshy metaphor -- both tube and frame are wrapped in cloth, like bandaged parts of a patient, and the tube seems to be recirculating some kind of fluid. Blood? Lymph? Fantasies? Even in absence, the body is somehow there, not as a simple metaphor but as an ironically suffering presence...
...around the eyes gives them a sunken look, and the face starts to wrinkle in what starvation experts call the old-man syndrome. The other principal form of starvation, kwashiorkor, is largely a protein-vitamin-mineral deficiency. Its most common symptom: swollen legs and ankles, caused by fluid leaking from blood vessels into the body...