Word: lobe
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Several complex sexual differences emerged. Men with lower verbal IQs were more likely to have their language skills located toward the back of the brain. In a number of women, regardless of IQ, the naming ability was restricted to the frontal lobe. This disparity could help explain why strokes that affect the rear of the brain seem to be more devastating to men than to women...
...donor. A healthy person can lose up to 75% of a liver and survive: within weeks the organ will fully regenerate. Both were willing; Teresa's liver proved more compatible. In a 14-hour procedure in November 1989, surgeons at the University of Chicago Medical Center removed the left lobe of Teresa's liver, trimmed it down, then transplanted it into Alyssa. During the next two weeks, Alyssa required three more operations to stanch bleeding...
...mother's lung to her dying 12-year-old daughter. The girl, born prematurely, had long suffered from severe scarring of the lung. She had perhaps a year to live. Dr. Vaughn Starnes, who performed the operation, says the mother, 46, should not notice the loss of one lobe of a lung. The lobe is expected to expand to fill the space in the daughter's chest created by the removal of the child's right lung...
Characteristically, Atwater is going all out against this latest adversary. He opted last week to undergo a specialized treatment, in which tubes containing massive doses of radioactive isotopes were implanted directly into the tumor in the right lobe of his brain. After five days, the tubes were removed, and Atwater was expected to return home this week. In three months, doctors will test the results...