Word: glanded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leaving the cyclotron, the protons travel a precise and predictable distance before they release their power. Careful positioning of the patient allows the beam to pierce the skin with little damage before releasing all its energy and destroying a specific target deep inside the body-such as the pituitary gland, perhaps, or a brain tumor...
...story of the bartered bride is older than Boccaccio, but this Italian retelling of the tale-the best of the film's four briskly lubricous episodes-is red-peppered with high spirits and low jinks. It provides much amusement for the young in gland, but more mature moviegoers may feel surfeited by 106 minutes of unadulterated adultery...
...experiment designed for studying the effects of the thymus gland on immune mechanisms and the "take" of grafts, eleven of 18 U.S. children, aged 31 months to 18 years, had their thymuses cut out while they were undergoing heart surgery. For comparison, the seven others were spared the thymus operation. Only occasionally is thymectomy done in connection with heart surgery, and in any case, "its eventual effects in children are not known." The experiment yielded only a negative result: there was no difference between the groups in the take of skin grafts...
...most active elements in the fallout has been iodine-131, which gets into grass, then into cows, then into milk, and then into children who drink the milk. In children, even more than in adults, the radioactive iodine (like ordinary iodine) is selectively attracted to the thyroid gland...
...authorities on a form of high blood pressure that used to be dumped into the catchall category of "cause unknown." Not until the early 1960s was this form found to be caused by an excess of the potent hormone aldosterone (TIME, March 15, 1963), produced by the adrenal glands, which bestride the kidneys. If either gland develops a tumor, it is likely to churn out aldosterone too generously. The victim of this "primary aldosteronism" has too little potassium in his system and usually too much sodium, an imbalance that leaves him prey to intermittent paralysis, uremia-and high blood pressure...