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Word: morgagni (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sperm survival at two hours. The patient said her last period began June 8, so by Naegele's rule, the confinement was due about March 15. But her history was bad -a Latzko Caesarean section for Bandl's ring and toxemia-and we found a hydatid of Morgagni then. On pelvic examination, Skene's ducts were normal, but the left Bartholin gland was slightly enlarged. Chadwick's sign was positive. A Papanicolaou smear was negative. Her Aschheim-Zondek was positive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Men in Her Life | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

Three Slaves. In between are such notables as Caspar Bartholin (1655-1738), who identified the vulvovaginal lubricating glands; Giovanni Battista Morgagni (1682-1771), a versatile anatomist; Friedrich Trendelenburg (1844-1924), who perfected the head-down, hips-up position for surgery on the pelvis; Isidor Clinton Rubin (1883-1958), who devised a way of blowing C02 through the Fallopian tubes as a fertility test; and the team of Selmar Aschheim, 80, and Bernhard Zondek, 67, whose mouse test has answered-millions of times, quickly and accurately-the question: "Am I pregnant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Men in Her Life | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

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