Word: fluidly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Schooley said the disease has been thought so far to attack only the lymph system. Now, symptoms like infected cells in the spinal fluid, pains in limbs, and meninigits, an inflammation of the lining of the brain, could be indications of AIDS, he said...
...place of shag carpets lit by the desolate glare of TV sets, of king-size beds seen as altars of suburban promiscuity, and blue swimming pools that slyly parody David Hockney's less tainted vision of a Californian Eden. It smells of unwashed dog, Bar-B-Q lighter fluid and sperm. It is permeated with voyeurism and resentful, secretive tumescence -- a theater of adolescent tension and adult anonymity. Fischl paints this world of failed intimacies with conviction and narrative grip: at best, his drawing is beautifully concise (though marred, at present, by too many botched and hasty passages...
...Edward Kass, found that the bacterium produces up to 20 times as much toxin as usual in the presence of certain tampon fibers. Kass's group discovered that the fibers -- polyester foam and polyacrylate rayon -- soak up large amounts of magnesium, which is normally present in vaginal tissue and fluid. When the magnesium is removed from the bacterium's environment, the bug responds by churning out great quantities of the deadly toxin...
...magnesium link may help explain why toxic shock typically occurs on the fourth day of a woman's period, when the menstrual flow has diminished. During the previous days, the volume of fluid is greater, and, Kass believes, there is probably enough unabsorbed magnesium present to keep toxin production in check...
...problem, and twice last week Burcham had to undergo dialysis. It was during the second treatment on Wednesday afternoon that a nurse, listening to Burcham's chest with a stethoscope, noticed that his breathing was labored in the left lung. X rays showed that a large amount of fluid had collected in his chest. Doctors later learned that the fluid was blood that had congealed into a jelly-like glob and was pressing against the upper left chamber of Burcham's natural heart (the Jarvik-7 actually replaces only the lower, pumping chambers). This pressure, known as cardiac tamponade, prevented...