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...once, the Greeks had no word for it: they neither understood nor named the body's system of glands and connecting channels through which colorless fluids flow. The Romans did coin a name, but for the fluid only. They called it lympha, after a fancied resemblance to clear spring water. But nothing about the lymphatic system was clear then, or for another 2,000 years. Only now, says Tulane University's Physiologist Hymen S. Mayerson in a report to the American College of Surgeons, are the workings of the lymphatic system beginning to be understood. The body...
...lymphatic system may fall victim to a cancerlike process. (Best-known example: Hodgkin's disease.) There may be miles of lymphatic ducts, but they are so fragile and elusive that nobody has measured them. Often buried in fat, they shrink to the vanishing point when not filled with fluid, and disappear at the gentlest touch of the anatomist's probe...
Plasma (the blood's clear fluid) is supposed to carry most of the blood's circulating protein supply, but there is always some protein outside the bloodstream because it has leaked through the capillaries -surprisingly as much as half of the blood's total stock. By a still-obscure method, the lymphatic system picks up this protein,, which then flows to lymphatic collection points. Biggest of these, in the abdomen, is the cisterna chyli. Others are in the chest. Through large lymph channels-notably the thoracic duct-the protein returns to the blood stream. Most surprising...
...scar may make the artery wall stronger than before, but more often a fatal flood of blood is spilled into the brain cavity. Usually, the aneurysm first develops a warning leak that causes a severe headache and stiff neck, and a test will then show blood in the spinal fluid. Among the estimated 100,000 cases of brain aneurysm each year in the U.S.-most of them caused by congenital weakness of an artery-probably 50,000 patients' lives might be saved if the patients could be treated effectively in the aneurysm's early stages...
...there can be no correct answer which will leave the total experience unmarried for A and X, so too, Last Year at Marienbad will suffer no explanation without suffering destruction. It creates an artificial world of enigma, a closed world that could exist in no form other than the fluid, puzzling...