Word: mastoid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bone, she reasons, should counter-balance so that the body's centre of gravity lies in the sacrum (base of the spine). When the human animal stands properly erect, an imaginary line should cut the nose, chin, breastbone and crotch. Another imaginary line should drop from the mastoid, in front of the shoulder joint, through the elbow and little finger (palm turned to the rear), side of knee and ankle. This is achieved by standing with feet together, shoulders held back, abdomen tucked in, buttocks clenched...
...Charles Ballance and Arthur Baldwin Duel, both of whom died a few months ago. Surgeons Ballance and Duel taught the younger surgeons how to repair facial palsy. In that disease the facial nerve controlling all the muscles which give character and expression to the features, degenerates. A chill, a mastoid operation or a fracture may cause facial palsy. No matter what the cause, one side of the face falls slack as a wet towel on a hook. Half the features sag in a drooping grimace...
...that "these movements were due to the fact that the transplants were made too soon, that is, when the nerve cells of the injured facial nerve were in a state of physiological unbalance with degeneration and healing going on at the same time. When the paralysis immediately follows a mastoid operation, the nerve may be under pressure and should be exposed at once. When the nerve is destroyed sufficiently to require insertion of a nerve graft, the operation must be delayed several months; if cut across or torn across in skull fracture, three weeks after the injury seems...
...accosts the patient. "What seems to be the matter with you?" The patient tries to explain. Dr. Libman apparently pays little heed. He pats the patient's head, glides his right palm down the patient's neck, slyly presses his thumb, first against the tip of the mastoid bone ("Do you feel any pain? Does it hurt you when I press?"), then against the styloid process just below the ear, "Do you feel any pain? Does it hurt you when I press?" With a sensitive person, sick or well, pressure on the styloid process will hurt keenly, whereas...
...born by caesarean section two months prematurely to a onetime domestic servant and an apartment house doorman. Like Jimmy, Margie has received only a child's ordinary training. As a result she is afraid to climb and jump, cannot yet walk or use a kiddy car. A double mastoid operation, from which she last week was recovering, has not noticeably impeded her development. Florie climbs and jumps as readily as Johnny used to. She has temporarily abandoned her kiddy car to learn how to roller-skate...