Word: irregularly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fashion designers-like the fashions they design-go in and out of style with the irregular cadence of the female whim...
...provide a fascinating experiment in literature and life. Simone had befriended a student of hers; the girl came to live with them and eventually caught Sartre's attention. The odd menage a trots that resulted drove Simone frantic and offended their friends-not because it was irregular, but because they couldn't see what Sartre saw in the girl. Finally, to exorcise this succubus, Simone wrote her first successful novel, L'Invitee, which told how a young woman moved in on a sympathetic couple and so demoralized them that the wife eventually murdered her. Of this denouement...
...basic problem confronting the surgeon in kidney transplantation in man has been the irregular numbers of venous and arterial vessels seen in the kidneys of the donor and recipient. As an example, the donor kidney may have more than the normal number of venous or arterial vessels, and the surgeon must decide whether to join or ligate (tie off) the irregular vessels...
...That the tieing off of an irregular (extra) vein, either in the kidney or the recipient, is not likely to embarrass the circulation of blood through the kidney as numerous intra-renal by-passes are present...
...tieing off of irregular arterial vessels is likely to lead to infarction (destruction through lack of oxygenated blood) or atrophy (malfunction through an insufficient arterial blood supply of a segment of the kidney, proportional to the diameter of the artery involved, as there are no intra-renal capallary by-passes present in the organ...