Word: livers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have long used medical jargon to impress gullible laymen. As far back as the 13th century, the medieval physician Arnold of Villanova urged colleagues to seek refuge behind impressive-sounding language when they could not explain a patient's ailment. "Say that he has an obstruction of the liver," Arnold wrote, "and particularly use the word obstruction because [patients] do not understand what it means." Such deceptions may still occasionally be practiced on patients, but this does not account for the impenetrable prose in contemporary medical journals, which are read mostly by doctors...
Characters suffer fates that would challenge a classical god. Poor Elizabeth Stewart died a couple of days after her marriage on As the World Turns when she fell upstairs and ruptured her liver. On The Doctors, the sinister Dr. Allison killed himself in order to throw the blame on a successful rival. Later in the same show, an urbane psychiatrist, Dr. Morrison, drove his nurse to suicide so that she would not report his criminal behavior...
Consider your basic Gadus morrhua, otherwise known as the cod. Its skin is slimy. Its liver is smelly. Its mouth droops and its eyes bulge outrageously. Even its character seems less than admirable: the cod submits meekly to any fishhook in sight. Yet the lowly Gadus morrhua is hardly friendless. Indeed, for the third time in 17 years, Great Britain and Iceland have deemed their attachment to the fish so vital that they are engaged in another "cod war" against each other...
...Committee was told by M. Harvey Brenner, an associate professor of public health at Johns Hopkins University, that there are concrete correlations between economic hard times and serious physical and social ills. According to Brenner, high inflation and widespread unemployment bring increased suicides, higher incidences of cirrhosis of the liver due to heavier drinking, and an upsurge in mortality from cardiovascular diseases. There is also an apparent strong correlation with increased crime-the next subject Brenner has agreed to look into for the committee. So far, nobody has begun looking into how low the misery index must drop before...
...does a liver cell differ from a brain cell, when they both carry the same genetic information," Maniatis asked. Artificial reproduction of genes can answer such questions, he said, because it can act as a probe into DNA organization and control in higher animals...