Word: implanter
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...stiff bout of navel-gazing-and, almost surely, a religious experience that will change his existence. His guru is a holy man named Bhaiji who receives a mortal stab wound during a religious riot. And sure enough, just before his death, Bhaiji manages through his power to implant faith and purpose in Paul's life...
...doing a heart transplant!" The "mess" meant that surgery was even busier than usual, with 15 operations scheduled; four were still in progress when Dr. Norman E. Shumway Jr. began the four-part series to remove the donor's heart and transplant one of her kidneys, and implant her heart in Mike Kasperak's chest...
Distributor Cap. When Mrs. White died, a team headed by Dr. William Angell removed her heart. Dr. Shumway did not have it perfused with blood, as had been done in South Africa, while Kasperak was prepared for the implant. He simply had it kept in a cold saline solution, at about 50°F. Kasperak, on a heart-lung machine, was cooled hardly at all. Applying experience gained from years of experimental surgery on animals, Dr. Shumway left in place two quadrantal areas of Kasperak's heart, with venae cavae and pulmonary veins attached-analogous to the distributor...
...painstaking sequence, Dr. Barnard stitched the donor heart in place. First the left-auricle, then the right. He joined the stub of Denise's aorta to Washkansky's, her pulmonary artery to his. Finally, the veins. Assistant surgeons removed the catheters from the implant as Barnard worked...
...Dermatologist Leon Goldman, stressed in a recent issue of the A.M.A. Journal that laserasing surgery is still too untried to be used routinely in the treatment of tattoos. But preliminary results are so promising that the technique may be used to treat soldiers who are literally tattooed when explosions implant tiny fragments and dirt beneath their skins...