Word: larynxes
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...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...
Light & Knife. The polyp (from the Greek polypodos, many-footed) near the President's vocal cord is a soft growth that looks something like a miniature octopus. Polyps are common in many parts of the body; misuse of the vocal cords seems to encourage their development in the larynx. The great majority are benign tumors, but while the President is still under the anesthetic, his polyp will be cut up and examined under the microscope to make sure there is no malignancy. Removal is a simple matter of inserting a tube with a light at the end down...
Cracked Cricoid. Fortnight ago, dug up from Arlington National Cemetery, the colonel's corpse was also autopsied, with equally startling results: the cricoid cartilage, a ring around the larynx below the Adam's apple, had been cracked in two places. The doctors' conclusion: "strangulation...