Word: glandularly
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...Algerian war stumbles blindly to a close, its fatal chaos is felt back home, where tragedy mixes with the melodrama that informs a teenager's every waking moment. Brains, groins, hearts-all work overtime in Francois, MiIte and their friends; they face their glandular convulsions with a wonderful seriousness. Swathing them in the sunlight and streams of Provence, Tachina treats all the kids (and their teachers) with affection and respect. He knows that for these handsome idealists, love is as important as sex. They are defining their blossoming identities by discovering the people they can't live without...
Those scenarios are timid next to the real thing: the power one person has over another -- the puppy love, say, that turns rabid as two souls merge in a toxic rapture. For most kids this is just a part of growing up; somehow they learn to cope with the glandular and emotional convulsions that accompany the transformation from child to teenager. Yet the threat of surrender is always there. The teenage girls in the wonderfully unsettling movie Heavenly Creatures create their own fantasy world out of youthful obsession, and then it spins out of their control. The result is murder...
...speak, more muted and pastoral: harmless scratches, small obscenities, chalk on Roman distemper. To adopt graffiti to the painted canvas was to pay homage to European art informel -- Fautrier, Wols and especially Jean Dubuffet. Their influence plays on Twombly's earliest paintings of the 1950s, with their lumpish glandular forms, the movement of the paint slowed up by mixing it with earth but then accelerated by a nervous, hairy scratching around the edges...
Thereason for low milk production, Neifert found, is usually anatomical. Some women simply lack sufficient glandular tissue (as opposed to fatty tissue) in their breasts. A history of breast surgery -- biopsies, breast reduction -- increases the risk. (A warning sign of the problem: the breasts do not swell significantly during early pregnancy.) How does one tell if a breast-fed baby is getting enough to eat? The proof, say experts, is in the diaper. In the first few weeks of life, a nursing baby normally wets at least six diapers a day and has very frequent bowel movements. For mothers...
...determine if the deadly process of metastasis has begun, surgeons performing mastectomies and lumpectomies routinely remove 10 to 25 lymph nodes from under the arm near the affected breast and examine these glandular structures for signs of cancer. A woman with "positive" nodes has a 37% to 75% chance of a cancer relapse within five years, depending on the number of affected nodes and the size of the original tumor. In such cases, chemotherapy or hormone therapy will be urged...