Word: lungfuls
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...died had been on a heart-lung machine and his temperature cooled to 68° F., which gave his organs a better chance of surviving after circulation was stopped. Thanks to a foresighted arrangement with the heart patient's family, surgeons were able to remove the left kidney from the cadaver within 40 minutes after death. Meanwhile, the transplant team under Physician John P. Merrill and Surgeon Joseph E. Murray was getting the accountant ready to receive the graft. Within another hour they had implanted it in the accountant's right flank, and a total of 125 minutes...
...them to dancing, singing, acting or mimicking one another. She convinced Actress Jill St. John that she was Dinah Shore and launched her into a reedy rendition of See the U.S.A. in Your Chevrolet. At Hypnoteuse Collins' suggestion, Lloyd Bridges went swimming through the audience with a plastic lung on his back. She suggested to Steve Allen that he was viewing one of the saddest movies ever filmed-and watched with approval while her subject dissolved soggily into tears. In one more practical demonstration of her art, she cut Pitcher Sandy Koufax down from one and a half packs...
Each of the legislators was instructed to inhale deeply, then to exhale as hard as he could through a tube attached to the bellows of a spirometer. The motion of the bellows made an electronic dot on the screen of a nearby oscilloscope. A persistent lung disorder usually shows up as a droop in the loop made by the dot as it moves downward across the screen during exhalation. Besides the blow-out test, each Congressman had a chest X ray and filled out a short questionnaire: "Are you ever troubled by shortness of breath? Do you have more than...
Blow Hot. At Birmingham's Alabama Medical Center, where the mobile unit was devised by Lung Specialist...
...would take time to find out how many of them had hitherto unsuspected emphysema. In any case, officials of the Alabama Tuberculosis Association and its affiliates felt sure that as a result of the demonstration, Congressmen would be more likely to blow hot than cold on appropriations for lung-disease research...