Word: organism
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Used as a bridge, the mechanical heart is kept in place until the patient's condition stabilizes and a donor organ is found. Surgeons can now choose among several types of pumps. While Gaidosh received the familiar Jarvik-7, Mandia's surgery marked the debut of the Penn State heart, developed by Surgeon William Pierce of the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. It has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration for temporary use only and is designed to overcome the blood-clotting problems that have plagued Jarvik-7 recipients. Dallara, meanwhile, was connected to a pair of external...
...drug, which is responsible for much of the recent progress in organ transplantation, is a potent suppressor of the immune system and is particularly effective at inhibiting the rejection of foreign organs. On the surface, cyclosporine (trade name: Sandimmun) would seem to be the last drug one would prescribe for AIDS patients, whose immune systems are already critically depressed. Indeed, an early theory about the cause of AIDS held that it was triggered by a cyclosporine-like substance produced by an infectious fungus...
...manipulated to guide mass ideology. In "Strategies of Lying," Umberto Eco performs a structural operation to demonstrate how Nixon's image-making speeches were variations on the same mythic elements composing Little Red Riding Hood. Michel de Certeau's "The Jabbering, of Social Life" reduces politics to a social organ polluting the environment with mindless dogma. The heralding of the Reagan Age is also blamed on a carefully-devised strategy of ignorance that is not without its humor...
...Obey..." goes to obscenity's other extreme, reducing audience participation to instinctive impulse. Guido Crepax's comic strip, "The Story of O," illustrates how it is in the insidious positioning of narrator and audience that pornographic outrage finds expression; as Barthes observes from the sidelines, O's sexual organ...
Dorf said he plans to use the $86,000 portion of the grant he received this year to explore the immune system's response to specific chemicals. The immune system may turn out to be crucial for understanding cancer and organ transplants, he said...