Word: lobes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...front part of Patricia Maguire s brain with which she normally would have done her thinking was withered. A mid-part was scarred by an old inflammation. Both conditions almost totally destroyed her ability to move her head, eyes, jaws, tongue, shoulders, hips, legs, knees. The withered frontal lobe proved most interesting to Northwestern's pathologists, for it was not directly affected by the attack of encephalitis lethargica which rendered the young woman inert. Dean Irving Samuel Cutter of Northwestern offered this explanation: "The first stages of encephalitis are sleep, paralyzing of certain cranial nerves, general weakness and acute...
According to the rules the prize will go to "the person cleaving the course (the face) in the fewest number of strokes without incurring too many of the stated penalties for chopping off an ear lobe, or without, in a pitch of enthusiasm, severing the entire head from his body...
...State of Hyderabad, "Heart of the Indian Peninsula," occupies the centre of the continental lobe. Unusually fertile and desert free, it is dotted with artificial lakes and storage reservoirs, has no sea-coast-a grave disadvantage-but is well watered by a system of rivers on which float many a quaint coracle. The district drains eastward into the Bay of Bengal...
...name is Su-lin, which means a-little-bit-of-something-cute," Mrs. Harkness explained. Su-lin had one tooth cut aboard the President McKlnley. Shivering newshawks watched her grasp the bottle in her paws, jerk off the nipple, suck Mrs. Harkness' ear lobe...
...millimetres thus replacing the loop within the cannula. A second core is cut at a depth of three centimetres and a third at two centimetres. The leucotome is then entirely removed from the brain and re-introduced in an anterolateral [front and side] direction into the same prefrontal lobe where cores are cut at a depth of 4.5 cm., 3.5 cm. and 2.5 cm. In like manner six spherical cuts or cores are made in the other frontal lobes...