Word: fluids
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pulled away from the curb my entire body froze up. My formerly smooth, fluid motions became stiff and jerky. I felt myself turning red. Walrus, meanwhile, was not amused...
...things went from bad to worse. Fluid began accumulating on Elizabeth's brain; doctors had to keep going in with a large needle to relieve the pressure. She grew lethargic, nauseated. The doctors said she would need more surgery to insert shunts that would drain the fluid. With that operation two days away, the parents tried one last hope. What could it hurt...
...night before the scheduled shunt surgery, a doctor arrived in Elizabeth's hospital room and removed so much thick, infected fluid from her brain that he asked to postpone the operation for a few days. But 12 hours later, when he returned to do another tap, he could barely find any fluid, and it was totally clear. The doctor was baffled. Elizabeth was back home two days later. "We now know it was one of those lesser miracles that presage a greater miracle," her grandfather says...
...essential is water; most people can live no more than four days without it. The minimum for a shelter is one quart of fluid per person per day; if space is available near the shelter, a gallon of water a day per person would provide for your comfort, including washing...
Researchers therefore decided to inject neural progenitor cells into the brain ventricles, chambers filled with cerebrospinal fluid surrounding the brain...