Word: graftings
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...Lillehei already had permission to remove the organs they needed. They took out the conjoined pancreas and duodenum as a unit and also took a kidney. They implanted the kidney near the patient's right groin. Then, instead of replacing her own pancreas and duodenum with the graft, they left her digestive tract intact and implanted the entire new unit in the left iliac fossa, just above the groin. It is hooked up to her arteries and veins, so it spills its hormones into the bloodstream, where they augment the output of her own failing organs...
...duodenum is not yet connected directly to the digestive tract. It will be hooked into a loop of the small bowel in about a month if the transplant remains healthy. So far, the transplanted kidney has effectively filtered the patient's blood and made urine; the pancreatic-duodenal graft has done its work so well that she has needed no insulin since her surgery...
...Dutch clairvoyant, who applied his "radar brain" to the case and reeled off a minutely detailed description of the wrong man. Brooke's most celebrated accomplishment was winning a series of grand-jury indictments against more than 100 public officials, private citizens, and corporations?on charges involving graft and bribery connected with state government...
...ripples and leaps over golden pebbles." One awed critic wrote that watching her was as fascinating as watching a wild animal in a cage. She herself apparently felt like a great tigress stalking among fluttering doves; she always claimed that she once tried to persuade a famous surgeon to graft a tiger's tail to her spine so that she could lash it about when she got angry. To her fans, she was known as "Sarah the Divine," or sometimes "The Magnificent Lunatic...
...Many. Thus ended a long, sometimes bitter tug-of-war that began 31 months ago, when Castello Branco declared war on corruption, graft and "anti-revolutionaries." Too often for congressional comfort, that label came to include legislators themselves, who found their mandates canceled. Not until last year did Congress finally stand up to the President; in a rare show of unity, it refused to vote Castello Branco sweeping new powers-including the right to close down Congress. So Castello Branco simply put the rules into effect by decree, and for good measure dissolved Brazil's 13 political parties...