Word: optic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Austrian government to return to Yugoslavia. Leaving her mistress a thank-you note in a language the lady could not read, Smilja told the family children goodbye, crept out into the Alpine night and put a bullet through her head. She survived, but the bullet destroyed the optic nerve connections of both eyes, and she will never see again...
...taper in a tornado." Author Lewis is likely to be lighting such tapers for some time to come. To be released this month are the radio adaptations of two new novels commissioned from him by the BBC. Though nearly blind as the result of a tumor involving the optic nerve, Lewis still manages to write, in large letters on sheets of white paper thumbtacked to a drawing board. His wife Anne types his manuscripts, reads him the newspapers (for several hours daily...
...Doctors who gave up using ACTH for some common eye diseases quit too soon, two Michigan researchers told the Association of American Physicians. For inflammation of the optic nerve, and also for degenerative diseases of the choroid and retina, ACTH can be given for a year or two, may then restore 20-20 vision to patients who have been almost blind...
...lines of the Swedish method-In a two-hour operation at the Institute of Radium of Mercedes Hospital, he lifted a flap of bone almost three inches square from Senora R.'s forehead. With the frontal lobe of the brain pushed aside, he worked past a barrier of optic nerves to cut the stalk by which the pituitary hangs from the hypothalamus...
...last summer from D'Angelo, self-styled Mago di Napoli (Wizard of Naples), and pronounced the man formidabile. Tenor Beniamino Gigli went in to be lifted from his nervous depression. Italy's Queen Maria José once sought D'Angelo's aid for her "weakened optic nerves...