Word: liverance
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...Francisco, Dick Thompson watched a triple bypass operation being performed on a longshoreman. His conclusion: "In surgery, the heart seemed no more mysterious than a clock. But later, when I saw the man's family in the waiting room, I remembered that a collection of those little machines-liver, heart, brain and the rest-work together and somehow produce laughter and love. To me, that's the greatest mystery...
...test, described by Medical Researchers David Blake and Stephen Spielberg, white blood cells from humans are mixed with liver tissue from humans or other species plus the drug under study. Then the preparation is examined to see if enzymes in the liver have metabolized the drug into a substance that kills white cells. The researchers believe that such toxic metabolites may be responsible for birth defects; some of their studies suggest that thalidomide works that way. The new test, for instance, shows that thalidomide does form a toxic metabolite, areneoxide, in the presence of liver tissue from rabbits, monkeys...
...bullet passed through the chest muscles, lung, diaphragm and part of the liver before lodging against a rib. An hour-long operation was successful in removing the bullet and draining the blood that had collected in his abdominal cavity...
PCBs are fat-soluble and build up in these tissues, the chemistry professor said. PCBs have long toxicity and build up in the liver, another professor said, adding that they are never excreted from the body...
Just about everyone expected Grasso to finish her second term-and perhaps a third or fourth-but last April doctors discovered she had ovarian cancer. By December the disease had spread to her liver. Grasso valiantly ran the state government from her hospital room for weeks, finally resigning on New Year's Eve. After slipping in and out of a coma several times, she died last week...