Word: organ
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most dangerous aspect of the fumes, Dr. Drinker emphasized, is that the worker is apparently in good health and shows absolutely no clinical symptoms, although his liver is becoming possible prey for disease. This organ is the only one affected by the fumes but acording to the experiments, recovery from this weakening is very slow even if the worker is no longer exposed to the fumes and can avoid liver complications...
...worker: who succumbed might have suffered unnoticeable liver changes from the fumes which made them easy victims of relatively innocuous diseases. To check this he took rats which had been exposed to the fumes and which had supposedly suffered liver injuries and administered a treatment known to attack that organ...
...previous years, before the new Constitution, the Praesidium will rule Russia as the chief organ of Government, exercising by decree the executive and legislative functions, having the judicial right of pardon. But the Praesidium, once a roster of Russia's most distinguished Old Bolsheviks, now has a majority of New Bolsheviks, many so new in the Dictator's favor that they are quite unknown to the Russian people. Only one list of 37 names was offered as candidates for the Praesidium. An announcement was made in passing that this list had been prepared by the "Council of Elders...
...mamillary body, a small spheroid organ which is one of the three principal parts of the hypothalamus. It lies at one corner of the hypothalamus and picks up impulses from the hypothalamus and transmits them...
...gyrus cinguli, a belt-shaped organ lying above the thalamic region. This is the receiving gate for impulses going into the cerebral cortex. It appears to be the seat of vigilance and of sex emotions...