Word: medulla
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...only three-fifths of their lung capacity. Miss Maclntyre, who breathes about a fifth as fast as her Goucher pupils, uses practically all her lungs at each breath. Her continual ability to do this results, physiologists guess, from some particular modification of a section of the sub-brain (medulla oblongata) which through a part of the spinal cord in the nape of the neck causes the chest to expand (pulling the lungs open) and the diaphragm to contract (giving more room in the chest cavity...
...like a radio receiving-set, of bulbs, coils, condensers, arms, doohickies, thingumbobs, gadgets, gimcracks. On top of the case are two brass arms, one of which constructor Pos points at the back of the patient's head, the other at his stomach-that is, at the medulla and the solar plexus. On goes a current stepped to very high frequency. Patients "have reported no sensation of warmth, of cold; no sensation of any kind." "There were no visible emanations nor was a photographic plate fogged when placed in front of the pointers." Yet for four months various Portland physicians...
Professor S. R. Detwiler, Assistant Professor of Zoology at the University, will give a lecture at the Biological Club meeting at 4.45 o'clock today in Room 46 of the Zoological Laboratory. His subject is "Transplantation of the Medulla in Amphibian Embroys." All members of the University may attend...
...experiments are said to deal with the suprarenal glands. These " endocrines " affect the general vitality of the body, emotions of combat and effort, blood pressure, pigmentation, sex development. They have a " cortex " or rind, the active principle of which has not yet been isolated, and a " medulla " or core, source of adrenalin (TIME, April 4). Failure or insufficiency of suprarenal action causes various disorders, depression, neurasthenia, discolored skin and the so-called Addison's disease. The exact objective of Dr. Banting's new research is not known. He plaintively protests: " The greatest service people could render me would...
...varied teaching experience, she became an intern at the Hopkins Hospital in 1901 and worked up through the ranks in the department of anatomy until she stands today among perhaps a score of the leading anatomists of the country. She is favorably known for her work on the medulla oblongata and the lymphatic and vascular systems. When American women presented Mme. Curie with a gram of radium on her recent American visit Dr. Sabin was selected spokesman as the greatest American woman scientist...