Word: larynxed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lopata made medical history last week when he sat up in his Boston hospital bed and said,"Hello-how are you?" He probably could have said more, but the doctors wouldn't let him try, lest he damage the delicate needlework in his throat. For Lopata had no larynx or vocal cords. These were removed in October after they had been torn to shreds by fragments from a Viet Cong grenade. What he had was a reconstructed throat, the first of its kind in the U.S. and probably in the world...
Skin Valve. Most patients who lose the larynx are cancer victims. These number about 6,000 a year in the U.S., and more than half of them learn to speak again by swallowing huge gulps of air. When they bring it up, it makes the throat muscles vibrate at a fixed, almost toneless pitch, in what Dr. William W. Montgomery of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary calls "an educated burp." Every time Surgeon Montgomery has done a laryngectomy, he has longed for a way to give the patient something better than this burping speech. He saw the results...
...chief medical examiner, then took the stand to pronounce Farber's death a homicide-even though the original death certificate listed the cause as coronary thrombosis. Called in last summer when New Jersey authorities had Farber's body exhumed, Helpern said that he found a fractured larynx, which led him to believe that Farber had been strangled. He said that he found the heart "normal...
...unfold with the dreamy slow-motion grace of an underwater ballet. Smoldering with anger and frustration, Gloria Foster commands the stage but cannot control her part. Her vocal range tends to be loud, louder, loudest, and she has yet to learn that the seat of passion is not the larynx...
...night before his surgery, the President was given a routine physical examination. Then the otolaryngologists (ear-nose-throat specialists), headed by Dr. Wilbur J. Gould of Manhattan's Lenox Hill Hospital, reconnoitered the presidential larynx, the territory in which they would be operating at dawn. The polyp, about the shape and consistency of a tiny button mushroom, was growing from the right vocal cord. Surgeon George A. Hallenbeck of the Mayo Clinic and Dr. David P. Osborne, a Navy surgeon, examined the presidential abdomen, where a lump the size of a golf ball protruded near the scar left...