Word: incisional
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That done, the trauma team could proceed more deliberately. X rays of the chest and abdomen were taken to try to lo cate the bullet; blood samples were analyzed for gases to help determine how much oxygen was getting into the blood. To see whether there was bleeding in the...
Assisted by some 20 people, Gershuni first made an incision in the elephant's tough skin just below her knee, using a foot-long saw instead of a scalpel. Then, with an electric drill, he cut a hole through one of the fractured bones and shoved in a 12...
The exceptionally delicate procedure, performed some 15 to 20 weeks into the pregnancy, is done under a local anesthetic. Doctors scan the woman with pulsed sound waves to locate the fetus, the umbilical cord and the placenta. After making a small incision in the abdomen, they insert into the uterus...
The clinic, at Norfolk General Hospital, will be directed by Drs. Howard Jones Jr. and Georgeanna Seegar Jones, a well-known husband-and-wife obstetrical and gynecological team, as part of the fertility program at Eastern Virginia Medical School. They will use a variation of the technique developed by British...
The entire operation takes about three hours, from initial incision to final closing. In the picture below, Dr. Crosthwait relaxes after it's all over.