Word: optic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Waterman, who discovered the peculiar talents of the horseshoe crab's eyes, is now trying to find out how the eyes work. He dissects them under a microscope, attaches their optic nerves to delicate electrical instruments, and measures their responses to light of varying polarity. He removes their tiny lenses and measures their optical properties...
...Frank Cerra of Scranton, Pa. could not see her newborn son: while the baby was being delivered, she had gone totally blind. Her doctor told her that she had had an optic hemorrhage. Mrs. Cerra went to an oculist: he told her she would never see again. That was eleven years...
...bridegroom had contracted malaria on a business trip to British Guiana, but no man to be deterred, he dosed himself with quinine (which was permanently to affect his optic nerves), took along a trained nurse and went on his honeymoon anyhow. He has since commented on what has turned out to be a devoted partnership. "My wife has been with me in everything I have done. I'd be very unhappy without her. She keeps me company." Right from the beginning, Lawyer Dulles, who still remembers his early days of 10? breakfasts at the Automat, was a busy...
...grew up in around Blooming Grove, was on the U.S.S. Hornet in Manila Bay in 1944 when an unreleased bomb on an incoming plane exploded. A fragment struck him in the head, injured the optic nerve, left him almost totally blind...
...second paper explains how the rhodopsin transfers the chemical reaction to the optic nerve which carries the impression to the brain. The response of the nerve is known to lead not only to sensations of sight, but also to electrical changes...