Word: lungfuls
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...regarded as an expert in the field of lung disorders in the newborn infant...
...examination showed that she had broken her right forearm; the discovery of spots in her left lung confirmed that she had had tuberculosis; and an examination of her gall bladder disclosed several gallstones. Her digestive tract showed that she had eaten melon shortly before her death; 138 melon seeds were found, all undigested...
...combination circus and Chautauqua lecture that last week was playing Zanesville, Ohio, a small (pop. 39,000) city on the edge of Appalachia. Many of his friends and classmates spent hours assembling and disassembling Rufus, a life-size plastic model of a human body with removable heart, lungs, kidneys and brain. Adults, meanwhile, strolled through displays devoted to family planning, sanitation and cancer detection, lined up at booths for tests to detect diabetes and lung disease and learned how to recognize incipient heart trouble...
...administer an antibiotic immediately on the theory that it might help. Though Tkach declined to identify the medicine, it was probably erythromycin or one of the tetracyclines, which are frequently prescribed for Mycoplasma pneumonia. From X rays, he concluded that only the lower lobe of Nixon's right lung was inflamed...
Died. Robert Ryan, 63, ruggedly good-looking actor with a talent for violent roles; of lung cancer; in Manhattan. Among Ryan's best performances in a screen career that spanned 30 years and some 90 films: the aging, failing prizefighter in The Set-Up (1949) and an anti-Semitic Marine in Crossfire (1947). Onstage he scored more recent triumphs in a Broadway revival of The Front Page (1969), in which he played the cynical managing editor, Walter Burns, and as the father in Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night...