Word: lesioned
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Despite their ordinary appearance, the spider's bite produces a necrotic lesion, in which the skin and flesh in the area around the wound dies, decays, and falls away. These lesions, if not treated can result in loss ofa limb-or, in rare cases, death...
Levi said that he knew of only one possible spider victim. In 1960, a man was treated for a necrotic lesion but his case was not linked to the spiders for some time because the spiders had not yet been discovered and the lesions only develop some 15 to 20 days after the bite...
Back home and full of bounce after a five-week tour of Western Europe was Dwight Eisenhower, 71; bouncing back nicely in a Manhattan hospital after an operation to remove a polypoid lesion from his large intestine was Herbert Hoover, 88; perennially bouncy Harry Truman, 78, was gadding about Manhattan...
...radio-frequency lesion maker was described last week by Dr. James C. White, Professor of Surgery, Emeritus, at the Medical School and from the neurosurgical laboratories at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. White spoke at the Second International Congress of Neurological Surgery at the Statler Hilton Hotel...
...Rest and inactivity, once a cardiac lesion has healed, do not prolong life," say Drs. Marvin C. Becker and Jerome G. Kaufman of Newark's Beth Israel Hospital and Rutgers University's Wayne Vasey. In Circulation, published by the American Heart Association, they condemn too much rest as likely to lead to "physical and emotional incapacity." Physicians and family may be as much to blame as the heart patients themselves for fostering idleness. To rehabilitate a patient after an attack, the researchers suggest, "we must accept the philosophy that work is a normal part of living, and important...