Word: normalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...usual ECG, taken with a patient supine in a doctor's office, shows what is supposed to be normal for those conditions: when the auricles contract there is a small upthrust called the P wave; this is quickly followed by a sharply spiking QRS wave as the ventricles contract; after a brief rest, there is a gently rising T wave before the ventricles get a fresh electric charge (see diagrams). What happens to the normal healthy man's heart when he gets up off the couch and goes about his daily activities...
Inverted Waves. Led by Dr. Lawrence E. Hinkle Jr., a team of Cornell University Medical College researchers persuaded volunteers to spend up to ten hours of the day wearing miniaturized tape recorders and with two electrodes taped to their chests. Played back at 60 times normal speed, their tape-recorded cardiograms were condensed into ten minutes, which made any abnormalities more apparent...
...notch in their T waves or turned them upside down; so did a heavy meal, after which, walking upstairs flattened the ST segment or pushed it below the base line. The researchers wondered whether the phenomena reflected varying degrees of atherosclerosis. Healthy young women, their arteries protected by a normal supply of estrogens, supplied an emphatically negative answer. Dr. Hinkle reported to the American College of Physicians that the young women's ECGs seemed to be at least as variable as the men's, perhaps more...
...York to Princeton. What appeared to the cardiologists as dangerous bouts of nonrhythmic ventricular action occurred while the man was apparently unaware of them and doing 60 m.p.h. or more on the New Jersey Turnpike. He is now on digitalis, said Dr. Killip, and is "living a completely normal existence"-presumably still driving the turnpike...
...parts of the Gospels are not historical in the modern sense, accepts the validity of form criticism, which assumes that certain sayings of Jesus were created by the early church. Under the circumstances, it is no surprise that the Vatican regards him as a rather disturbing thinker. Besides the normal prepublication censorship to which all priest-scholars must submit, McKenzie has to have all his writings cleared by Rome. He makes no secret of his opinion that "the practice of censorship is basically immoral and irrational...