Word: nasality
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...artery was tied off, and glands beneath the upper jawbone (some of them already suspiciously enlarged) were removed. In the second stage of the operation, after slitting the lip and cheek wide open, the surgeon removed the whole upper jaw and palate on the right side, which threw the nasal cavity and mouth into one. "These frightful operations were performed under local anesthesia...
...shut off the mouth from the nasal cavity and make speech and eating possible, Freud had to wear a "huge prosthesis, a sort of magnified denture or obturator.'' This instrument, says Jones, was a horror that Freud and family nicknamed "the monster." It was painful and difficult to get in or out. In one nightmare scene, neither Freud nor the hovering Anna nor a physician could get it into his mouth, and the surgeon who devised the monster had to be called. When it fitted tightly enough to fulfill its purpose, it caused recurring sores. When...
Luckily, Colin Gordon seems less serious about his role as her crisp BBC-announcer finance; with a formidably stiff upper lip, a brandished umbrella, and a violent nasal accent he successfully spoofs exactly the roles he usually plays. Terry-Thomas, as a genial philanderer, briefly does much the same thing...
...only common cold virus to be successfully isolated for vaccine development. Named JH (for Johns Hopkins), it was discovered by accident in 1953 during an influenza study, when a group of Hopkins nurses came down with stuffed-up noses, scratchy throats, mild fever and coughs. Dr. Price took nasal washings, isolated what he thought was a flu virus, but suspected when the nurses got no worse that he was dealing not with flu at all but with the common cold. Further testing took until last December, when Researcher Price finally announced isolation of the virus ("We wanted to make sure...
...transfer some of the Elvis Presley appeal. A veteran of such folksy outfits as the Dixie Playboys and the Shenandoah Valley Boys, Darlene was signed on the basis of a demonstration record, loaded aboard the Victor March of Dimes train for a tour of the country. Her high, nasal voice and tub-thumping beat went over big at whistle stops and local auditoriums. Two of her singles-My Boy Elvis and Little Bit-got on the charts, and with her latest disk, Love Me to Pieces, just out, Victor is publicizing her as the "female Presley...