Word: oxygenate
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...rigged up a perfusion pump analogous to the artificial heart which Charles Augustus Lindbergh designed for his admiring friend Dr. Alexis Carrel. To his pump Dr. Wilson hitched rabbit kidney after rabbit kidney, and through them perfused artificial blood composed of salt water, red corpuscles from beef blood and oxygen. Upon adding potassium cyanide, which displaces oxygen, Dr. Wilson through his microscope could see oxygen-starved mitochondria crumble while cells of the kidneys, and finally the entire kidneys died...
Whether the sun contains a mysterious element "coronium," unknown to the earth, or whether the phenomenon giving rise to the coronium theory is merely the reaction of a well known element such as oxygen under peculiar conditions on the sun, is one of the many important scientific problems which the Harvard-Technology instruments have been designed to solve...
...careful and entirely liquid diet was prescribed by the Royal physicians, of whom Lord Dawson of Penn is the first doctor ever created a peer. Again working with him last week to save George's life with oxygen and every artifice known to science was Nurse Black...
...Pilot Hughes immediately climbed. There he leveled off, tried to get a radio bearing, discovered his antennae had torn away in the takeoff. Nonetheless, he dashed on at 225 m.p.h., taking oxygen every five minutes. After an hour, as he whizzed over the Colorado River into Arizona, thick weather shut in around him, forced him to fly blind. Climbing another 3,000 ft., he found smoother air, came out into the clear over Santa Fe as his third hour ended. Hour later, he met night rolling in over Kansas...
...contain silica, by miners', sandblasters, quarrymen, tunnel borers. The silica particles erode the delicate lining of the lungs, make them vulnerable to the germs of pneumonia and tuberculosis. If those diseases do not kill, the silica victim usually wastes away to death because his clogged lungs transmit insufficient oxygen to his blood...