Word: nodes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Each infarct, or area of dead muscle, can interfere with the flow of electrical impulses that serve as the heart's ignition system. Normally, a current is generated for each beat at the "sinus node" (situated where blood enters the upper right heart). The charge then passes through the walls of the two upper chambers (auricles), making them contract. Then the signal is channeled through the auriculoventricular node (where the heart's four chambers meet), and passes through the ventricles' walls...
...experiencing chest pains, Ruby at first received treatment for a virus at the jail, was hospitalized only after he assured Sheriff William Decker that he was feeling "not worth a damn." Though the precise source of Ruby's cancer remained undetermined, tests showed a malignancy in a lymph node in his neck and a cluster of nodules in the chest and lungs. So far advanced is the cancer that doctors ruled out surgery and radiation, instead gave Ruby regular intravenous doses of 5-fluorouracil, a drug that starves cancerous cells and, when successful, slows the deadly spread...
...Jack Ruby, 55, in serious condition at Dallas'Parkland Memorial Hospital after surgery to remove a cancerous lymph node from his chest; Britain's Queen Mother Elizabeth, 66, recovering in London's King Edward VIFs Hospital following an unspecified abdominal operation; Joseph P. Kennedy, 78, resting in Boston's New England Baptist Hospital after an operation to remove lesions from his chest; and Actress Sina Lollobrigida, 38, feeling much better following treatment in Manhattan's Beth Israel Hospital for severe intestinal inflammation that resulted, she said, from eating an unwashed apple in Mexico...
...life, though often desperately unhappy, was a singular achievement. Torn apart by huge and various talents that plunged like wild horses in all directions, he was driven by the threat of emotional dismemberment to seek the true center of his personality. The search for this "secret node" in which all conflicts could be reconciled was Goethe's obsession, and in pursuit of it he broke open vast new tracts of the dark continent where Freud and Jung, a century later, made their greatest discoveries...