Word: nasality
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...thinly, following the contour of the bone evenly. Gradually he applied other layers, feeling his own jowls & forehead for guidance. The length of the nose he determined by measuring the distance between the bridge and the roots of the upper teeth: its contour by following the curve of the nasal bone. To get the fullness of the cheeks he held a pencil from the cheekbone down to the jawbone and allowed a little for normal rounding. He used the same instrument to determine the set of the eyes, holding it slantwise from the eye socket to the cheekbone...
Benzedrine is a synthetic colorless liquid, chemically related to adrenalin. Smith, Kline & French Laboratories of Philadelphia have a patent on the drug until 1950. Benzedrine is ordinarily used as a nasal spray or inhalant to reduce congestion due to head colds, sinusitis, rhinitis, hay fever, asthma. Larger doses of the drug cause restlessness, sleeplessness...
When Alabama's poliomyelitis ("polio") epidemic intensified, Governor Bibb Graves ordered all inmates in State institutions to be given an immunizing nasal spray (picric acid + sodium alum), made it possible for State employes to have the same treatment for 10?. Taking advantage of his own proposition, Governor Graves called Dr. H. G. Camp, Chief State Prison Physician, into his office, had his own nostrils well flushed...
...summer no reliable results came from anti-paralysis preventive vaccines (TIME, Sept. 9). This summer the U. S. Public Health Service and the Rockefeller Institute suggest spraying the nostrils with 4% sodium alum or tannic acid solution five or six days in succession in alternate weeks. This treatment toughens nasal membranes, definitely protects monkeys, at least does no harm to humans...
...failure of the soft palate to close off and separate the nasopharynx (space back of the nose) from the oropharynx (mouth part of the throat). Consequence of such failure is that air which should escape from the mouth, during the enunciation of consonants, vibrates through the nasal cavity and escapes through the nostrils...