Word: pathologist
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...July 26; his father tried to awaken him, but young Mitchell was dead. Tissues from his body were sent for analysis to a busy laboratory in Utah, which concluded a month later that Mitchell had died of cyanide poisoning. Reviewing records last week and checking with authorities in Chicago, Pathologist William Doughty, of Sheridan County Memorial Hospital, who had been consulted in the baffling case, found that the level of cyanide had been about the same as in the bodies of the seven Illinois victims...
...bottles hold goldfish and pickles. The EKG machine beeps out themes from Rocky, Jaws, Close Encounters and Pac-Man. The chief pathologist tells his students: "There are more than 20 bodily fluids, and I am proud to say I have tasted every one of them." A poodle and a boxer, both wearing yarmulkes, sit mournfully by the graveside of one Spot Moskowitz. Steven Ford, once a President's son, now a soap-opera regular, gets bopped on the head with a food tray. "Attention," a metallic voice announces over the hospital speaker system, "E.T., phone home...
...most apt description is the curse. For about half of all women of child-bearing age, menstruation is a monthly misery that causes intense physical and mental discomfort. In the U.S. alone, menstrual problems result in the loss of 140 million hours of work a year. Menstrual pain, says Pathologist Laurence Demers of the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center in Hershey, Pa., "probably is the most common cause for absence of women from the work force...
Concern over the operation stems primarily from two experiments with different species of monkeys performed by Nancy Alexander, a physiologist at the Oregon Regional Primate Research Center in Beaverton, and Veterinary Pathologist Thomas Clarkson of the Bowman Gray School of Medicine in Winston-Salem...
...Egyptians built massive pyramids to be the ceremonial resting places of the pharaohs, and countries around the world have long given the dead elaborate burials. Now a Swedish pathologist has designed a new casket that he claims is suited to the less ceremonial 1980s. It is made of wax-impregnated corrugated cardboard and is said to be just as durable as an ordinary pine box. With its outer finish of imitation oak or walnut, it even resembles a wooden casket. Promoters point out that the cardboard model can be shipped flat to reduce transportation costs, conserves scarce natural resources, costs...