Word: gullete
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From Illinois and Georgia last week came case histories of surgery's triumph over one of nature's malign quirks that was once invariably fatal, then permanently crippling. The anomaly: a baby, healthy-looking at birth, may prove to have no gullet (esophagus) to carry food from mouth to stomach. Sometimes there is a short, dead-end stretch of gullet at both top and bottom, but the middle section is missing. Often there is an opening between the defective gullet and the windpipe, so that air goes into the stomach and food into the lungs. Exact incidence...
...among other men (though equally common in women of both groups), and occurred at later ages: only 2% before age 44, as against 8% among non-Adventists; 12% before 54, as against 30%; and 38% before 64, as against 62%. ¶Cancer of the mouth, larynx or gullet, which has been associated by Dr. Wynder with a combination of heavy smoking and hard drinking (TIME, June 13, 1955) was only 10% as frequent among Adventist males; the single case recorded was cancer...
...before-and-after pictures, some showing faces horribly deformed by cancer, then repaired by skillful surgery. One of the most eloquent volunteer exhibits was a man who had had his vocal cords removed for cancer of the larynx: Deputy Sheriff Sproul Dean, who has learned to speak through his gullet with swallowed air. Said he: "I recovered from that thing, and I want to show others that they...
...home Andy began to feel ill, took a cola drink and milk to ease the pain. They only made it worse. He called his family physician, who knew Andy's occupation. A barium X ray confirmed his diagnosis: Andy had punched a hole through his esophagus (gullet), narrowly missed his heart. His drinks were spilling through the hole into his chest cavity. The doctor called Surgeon Philip Thorek, an amateur movie fan who is careful to take a camera crew with him on unusual cases...
...dialogue there are enough "prithees," "goodwives," and "forsooths" to clog the collective gullet of The Lambs' club. As for the problem of delineating character, it is solved simply. Characters express emotion by changing color-from pink to grey, scarlet, dull red and "glistening" chalk white, until the fascinated reader feels like the chameleon, which is said to become a nervous wreck when nudged across a plaid bedspread...