Word: iliac
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heart disease or may have recently undergone a major operation. A blood clot (thrombus) breaks loose from its anchorage, floats with the blood stream until it gets stuck in an artery. Most frequent sites of this plugging are the common femoral artery in the groin (39%) and the common iliac artery in the lower abdomen (15%). Embolus here stops circulation in the entire leg and foot. Other frequent sites for emboli are the brachial artery in the elbow, affecting the forearm and hand; the popliteal (10%), affecting the lower leg and foot; the aorta, affecting the entire body...
...head and brain. The other branch goes to the trunk and limbs. Had the bullet been carried by the flowing blood and pulsing artery up toward the brain, it would quickly have plugged some small bore artery, caused quick death. Instead, the pellet turned downward, worked into the left iliac artery, then the left femoral. Surgeons last week left it there, hoping it would work further down the leg where its removal would be less risky to Harry Be-sharre's life...
...Rheumatic Heart Disease in Children and Adults" by Dr. T. D. Jones; March 6, "The White House Conference and Oral Hygiene" by Dr. L. M. S. Miner; March 13, "Asthma, Hay Fover, and Allied Conditions" by Dr. F. M. Rackemann '09; March 20, "Back Ache, Lumbago, and Sacro-iliac Troubles" by Dr. M. N. Smith-Peterson...