Word: gelatinize
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...group then developed a more realistic skull substitute. They made life-sized, head-shaped shells of brittle plastic and filled them with gelatin. They finally got an artificial human skull that reacted to shock almost exactly like a real one. Then they catapulted the models against solid objects resembling airplane parts that passengers' heads might hit in a crash...
...plate, when Hubble develops it, will not look like much: only a few faint smudges of silver granules on a film of gelatin. By itself, the first photograph may prove little, but there will be many others. Added together, they may tell man things about his universe that have puzzled him since he came here to live...
Surgeon Hilger P. Jenkins and three colleagues at the University of Chicago School of Medicine put the sponge to the severest tests on 80 dogs. They cut the heart, liver, veins, arteries, then capped the gushing wounds with pads of dry gelatin sponge. In almost every case, bleeding stopped in a few minutes. In less drastic operations on 140 human patients, the sponge was just as effective...
Besides stopping bleeding (by reacting with blood to form tiny clots inside the sponge), gelatin has two important surgical advantages over conventional gauze pads: 1) it helps wounds heal, 2) it can be left in the body, because it is absorbable.* Said Dr. Jenkins: the new material should make possible heart and cancer operations hitherto all but ruled out because of the great loss of blood...
Another prediction: that gelatin sponges would become standard equipment in family medicine chests as first-aid dressings for wounds and nosebleed...