Word: lungful
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...accident broke five of the pedestrian's ribs, poking one of the ends into his right lung. At every breath he took, air leaked into the cavity of his chest. Shortly after Dr. Atkinson made the man comfortable, "it became apparent that the patient was literally blowing himself up more and more with each respiration. Within two-and-a-half hours of his admission [to the hospital], his appearance had changed entirely. From a moderately sized individual he had become an enormous, puffing, grunting balloon. His face became rounded; his neck so enlarged that his chin and chest were...
...returned from Abyssinia where for a year and a half he was court physician to the last descendant of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, relates that since May 1933 he has treated over 20,000 patients in the great hospital at Dessye, most of them for various lung troubles-Abyssinia is a mountainous country; many also suffer from venereal and tropical diseases...
...potent Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. show that its new "Lifeguard Tube" had beaten the No. 1 bugaboo of U. S. motorists-the danger of loss of control following a blowout at high speed. The new tube is really a double tube, one inside the other. The inside tube or "lung," made of two-ply fabric, floats free under normal riding conditions, has a single small vent through which air escapes slowly when a blowout bursts the outer tube. Thus, it converts the blow-out into a slow leak, allows the driver to continue a mile or more with safety. Chief...
...Allan, an engineer at Boulder Dam. This makes it necessary for The Silver Streak, with Tom Caldwell at the controls and B. J. Dexter biting his knuckles in its luxurious caboose, to race from Chicago to Boulder City at 100 m. p. h., carrying an "iron lung", to save Allan Dexter's life. Before it reaches its destination, The Silver Streak barely escapes being wrecked at a drawbridge which closes a split second before the train arrives at full speed; rounds a hairpin turn at 100 m. p. h.; narrowly misses being derailed by a sleepy switchman; grazes a freight...
...morphine was injected yet he seemed unaffected stating he fully conscious. Quezon had insistently requested be placed under general anesthesia order be fully unconscious. This, however, not granted for his own good as it was pre-arranged use only local anesthetic order avoid least possibility risking any lesion to lung. An incision about four to five inches long on left lower abdomen was made through which an L-shaped stone was removed from lower part left ureter in about 12 minutes. Thorough exploration of entire ureter upwards to kidney, downwards to urinary bladder and careful repair wound required altogether about...