Word: growth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...commonplace ankle ailment which is caused by the pounding of hoofs on race tracks and results in a painful growth, cartilage, on a front ankle...
...only to prevent goiter, but to spread the word that iodine is essential to bodily health. The thyroid gland takes up iodine from the bloodstream and uses it to form a hormone, thyroxine. In turn, thyroxine regulates many body functions, including heat production, brain development, sexual maturity, and the growth of hair, skin and bones. A shortage of such an element as iodine, said Dr. Sebrell, may not be indicated dramatically by serious illness: "Just as often, or oftener, the result may be lowered efficiency, nervousness or lack of energy. Too vague for any specific diagnosis, such a generalized malaise...
...most likely injury is to the growth of the feet, warns Dr. Louis H. Hempelmann in a companion article. A growing section of bone (the epiphysis) is much more easily damaged by X rays than adult bone. X rays are deliberately used to stunt the growth of one leg in a child whose other leg has been shortened by disease. Hempelmann suspects that such stunting might result from the use of X-ray shoe fitters, and go undetected for years...
Said bustling Homer Hargrave, chairman of the Chicago Exchange: "We haven't kept pace in the securities market with the growth and industrialization of the Midwest. We will now have a horse to ride that can keep pace." The exchange opens formally Sept. 15 but will not be ready to deal in stocks for at least two more months...
...Journal of Surgery, Dr. Robert Gutierrez of New York suggests that this proportion may eventually be raised to eight out of ten. His method: stilbestrol is used first to reduce an advanced cancer (too far gone to be surgically removed) to smaller, more manageable size. Then, he says, the growth can be cut out and the patient may have years of useful life...