Word: oxygenation
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...happens but much is felt. "Her heart pressed up weakly against her ribs," the reader learns of Clara, a young working woman of the kind once called "spinster." Or "Clara felt slightly breathless as though the feebleness of the light was a sign of an ever-diminishing supply of oxygen." And (Clara, in perfect health, leaving a hotel) "Clara's ankles felt weak. There seemed no way she would ever get through the revolving doors ahead...
WATER HYACINTHS. Introduced into New Orleans from Venezuela a century ago, these floating, flowering plants have spread to many Southern states. In some areas, they have clogged shallow rivers and lakes and killed fish by extracting oxygen from the water. They have even drowned a few humans who have become entangled in their island-like mats of vegetation...
...disease detectives' " difficult task is vital for preventing spread and recurrence. It does not save the victims already struck, who died from lack of oxygen because their lungs filled up with fluid and blood. Many of these victims and others with similar problems do not receive the best modern medicine can offer because of our failure to organize health-care delivery...
...strategically located hospitals can and should be equipped and staffed to provide around the clock the expensive, sophisticated oxygen-delivery systems that can sometimes support life until nature has healed basically reversible lung changes...
...mocking names for their techniques and instruments. The Wet Submarine, for example, means near-suffocation of a prisoner by immersing him in water, or, frequently, urine; the Dry Submarine is the same thing, except that a plastic bag is tied over the victim's head to deprive him of oxygen. In the Grill, the victim is stretched out face up on a metal frame while a "massage" of shocks is delivered to various parts of the body. A Brazilian invention called the Parrot's Perch is used in many countries; it consists of a horizontal stick from which the prisoner...