Word: lymphaticus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...potent ductless glands, lies just behind the breastbone immediately above the heart. Only occasion when the thymus becomes important is when, for no known reason, it grows big, causes a peculiar hoarse breathing, a continuous choking sensation (which may end in actual suffocation), or that strange condition called status lymphaticus whose slender, soft-skinned, sexually immature victims may at any moment drop dead. Obscure though the function of the thymus is, it occurs in all creatures from fish to man. In man, it shrivels as adolescence wanes, becomes only a vestige with age. Dr. Rowntree, following the lead...
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