Word: incisional
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The leech is a form of worm which lives on blood, can absorb as much as three or four times its body weight. Around its mouth is a sucker surrounded by a network of strong muscles. It makes a triangular incision in its victim, clamps on the sucker, pumps out...
Surgeon Bevan's professional reputation is soundly founded. He originated the "hockey-stick" incision to expose the gall-bladder for operation without cutting through important nerves. He was one of the first to propose lengthening the period of premedical and medical education from three years to seven, considers his...
H. K. Beecher, a fourth-year medical student at the Harvard Medical School, has been awarded the Warren Medal for his essay on "The Effect of Laparatomy on Lungs and Respiration." Beecher is from Wichita, Kansas, where he took his A. B. in 1926 and his M.A. in 1927 at...
The bus manager was made ready on the operating table while the tall thin man whipped off his coat, rolled up his sleeves, put on a surgeon's white robe. A quick deft incision and a few minutes later the tall thin man had excised the bus manager'...
Last summer Dr. Brooks toured Europe. Impatiently trying to help move some baggage, he ruptured himself. He was operated upon in September. From then until January he was active in the campaign which raised $500,000 to liquidate Baylor's debts. Then he was ordered to rest. A hearty eater...