Word: incisional
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The phonograph droned in the grisly darkness for an hour and 50 minutes. At last the lights went up. In a jar of alcohol weltered a fine appendix. On the patient's belly "was a neatly closed incision. Ten days later, X rays proved that Spiritualist Bernardi's...
The medical corpsman, who in peacetime had been an automobile mechanic in College Place, Wash., went to work on the rifleman's throat. He knew, at second hand, the delicate operation that had to be done; his Army instructors had lectured on it, months before-a tracheotomy (incision into...
Said Private Kinman to the patient, as he opened his jackknife: "I don't like to do this, but it is the only way you are going to live." He made a vertical incision in the exact middle of the wounded man's neck stopped the blood as...
Their first big success came in 1940, when they operated on a 16-year-old boy with a weak, wasted lower leg and foot. Through an incision in the calf, they crushed the nerve above the point where it was damaged. Two months later, motion and feeling began to return...
What Dr. Ada did with the detector sounds simple, but the operation took more than two hours. First the detector showed that the needle had moved to the back of the heart, a different position from that shown in the last X ray. Next Dr. Ada had to tilt the...