Word: organizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...going to make the same mistake again." Four days after the transplant, the doctors could see no sign of either infection or a rejection reaction. Blaiberg's condition was better than Washkansky's had been at the same stage, with good circulation and all organ functions returning toward normal. He was eating well, and making small talk. Said Barnard: "I would say he is definitely going to live longer than he would without the operation. I cannot say how many months or how many years, but he will live a much more comfortable life than before. This...
...human heart, the Cape Town grocer died of double pneumonia. The underlying cause of the process that ended in death was clouded and likely to become the subject of medical dispute, but one thing was clear: it was not the failure of the transplanted heart. To the last, that organ functioned with a surprisingly strong and regular beat...
...most venture some of recent rock recordings, the Prunes' album-length performance of Mass in F Minor, a new Reprise re lease. Composed by Los Angeles Rec ord Producer David Axelrod, 34, the six-part Mass achieves a surprisingly successful blend of pounding rhythms, a "churchy" organ, raucous improvisations and echoes of medieval plainsong. For the text, Axelrod says he "took just the words I thought were relevant, like 'Lamb of God, grant us peace.' That's awfully hip for the times...
Starzl (1966, p. 98) has spoken of "the declining curve of life," implying that as the end approaches there is less and less life in the individual, that there is present quantitative factor, a sort of death by inches. To a certain point this is supportable in that all organ and never centers do not become irreversibly damaged simultaneously: consciousness as a brain function is often irretrievably destroyed months to years before the respiratory and vasomotor centers fail. At the same time one can share Schreiner's (1966, p. 100) disconent and insist that "a coordinating vital principle exists which...
Some of those who have an interest in organ transplantation press for a new appraisal of what constitutes death so the organ sought may be taken while circulation continues...