Word: minore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...base" upon which to construct the country's military organization has resulted in a mandatory six-month, active-duty training period for all Guardsmen and Reservists who enlist after April first. This six-month period will be a minimum training requirement for all branches of the service, with one minor exception in the case of men under 18 1/2 years of age in the National Guard...
...military obligation has always been a relatively complex one for the college student, and with the advent of the new "six-month" programs it will become even more so. At first the six-month program, introduced by the Reserve Forces Act of August, 1955, was of relatively minor concern to the college student, since it was applicable only to men below...
Three dozen or more minor blood vessels had to be tied off to stanch the bleeding. One surgeon would hold a clamp on a blood vessel while another passed the suture silk around it, deftly tying knots. With ribs and breastbone now lying bare, Bailey chose which bones to cut, called "rib shears." A scrub nurse handed him a device like fowl shears with offset handles. With firm pressure of powerful hands. Bailey himself snipped the breastbone...
...blood settle slowly in a slightly inclined cylinder and a helical reservoir, both coated on the inside with an antifoaming compound long used by brewers. The DeWall oxygenator, coupled to two standard commercially available pumps, won quick favor in many surgical centers. It is now-with minor local modifications-the type most widely used in the U.S. (see diagram), though some surgeons still refuse to bubble blood...
...pump run at such high speed may damage the blood cells. Another major disagreement involves stopping the heartbeat. With its major vessels shut down and their blood bypassed to the machine, the heart goes somewhat limp, but keeps on beating because it continues to receive some blood through minor channels. This can be a serious problem: the surgeon wielding his needle holder has to "take aim on a moving target." Moreover, stitches inserted while the heart muscle is tense may tear out. So surgeons at the Cleveland Clinic, headed by Donald Brian Effler, adopted the technique of injecting a heart...