Word: implanter
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...Reformation, when Queen Elizabeth's army beat the last of Ulster's great Celtic earls, Hugh O'Neill and Red Hugh O'Donnell, at the battle of Kinsale in 1601. The vast lands of these Catholic noblemen were forfeited to English and Scottish "undertakers," who were pledged to "implant" them with farmers of Protestant faith and British race...
...down from the California hills at 100 miles an hour, brittling dispositions and trees alike, preparing those few signs of life in Los Angeles for an Indian summer of death which, though matching other years in the strength of its demonic energy and violence, would once and for all implant the Fear in the hearts of millions of Americans. The wind came, people sweated, lay in bed asleep, took Excedrin; the crime rate went up 75 per cent; and Charles Manson...
...which showed up clearly on motion picture X rays, made it possible for physicians to see with 90% accuracy exactly where the coronary arteries were blocked. The Sones method also enabled cardiologists to evaluate the results of their operations and proved beyond any doubt that the Vineberg implant measurably improved circulation of blood to the heart muscles...
...parts, which take from one to five hours to implant, do not of themselves restore the patient's hearing. Instead, they serve as a scaffolding over which the patient's own ear-canal skin grows to form new ear tissue. The operation does, however, substantially reduce hearing loss. Most eardrum-damaged patients have moderately severe impediments. In most cases, the implants have improved their hearing to within the normal range...
Last week a Frenchwoman was up and doing well with just such a radioactive source in her chest. In an operation at Hopital Broussais in Paris, Drs. Paul Laurens and Armand Piwnica had successfully performed the first human implant of an atomic pacemaker in Suzanne Peragin, 58. If all goes well, the device should sustain her without further operations for the rest of her life, giving her heart a boost to 65 beats per minute whenever it begins to falter...