Word: patching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When a large piece of artery has been torn away, a nearby vein can be tied off and a piece cut out for a patch. (Smaller, "collateral veins" can always take up the circulation of the large ones.) Even when it is impossible to repair an artery, Dr. Pratt continued, amputation is still not inevitable, for, like a vein, an artery can be ligated (tied off from circulation). There is small danger of gangrene if the accompanying vein is also ligated...
Boris and his boys say that the Germans are not a patch on what they were in 1941. Their bombing was pretty bad a year ago, but it is terrible now, and each time they come over they come higher than last time...
...sometimes, when much damage has been done, it is necessary to cut out the section of damaged gut, patch the whole ends together again. As much as six feet of small intestine, he said, "have been removed with success." Chiefly responsible for the great reduction in mortality are: 1) the liberal use of sulfa drugs, both sprinkled on the wounds and taken internally; 2) massive blood transfusions-in some cases as much as eleven pints-which make possible bolder operations than were risked in World...
...Suits with shorter jackets, with slash instead of patch pockets, kick-pleat instead of box-pleat skirts...
...Patch and pray" will be compulsory for industry as well as for U.S. housewives, said William L. Batt, chief of the requirements committee of WPB last week. Some patterns of U.S. living now in the making...