Word: pelvic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vibration has nothing to do with "riveter's ovaries"-colloquial name for female disorders in general. Pelvic complaints are either coincidental or recurrences of previous disorders from standing up too long...
...nobody paid much attention. But endocrinologists began to get interested when Dr. Hisaw and fellow researchers found the relaxing substance in the blood of pregnant guinea pigs, rabbits, sows, dogs, cats, mares, women. In non-burrowing animals, relaxin dissolved no bone (as in the pocket gopher) but relaxed the pelvic ligaments and widened the pelvic canal, thus making birth easier. Hisaw found that even virgin female animals were relaxed by relaxin...
...Bump: a sudden forward projection of the pelvic region; grind: an unabashed rotation of the same...
...marketed in the U.S. were recently found to be contaminated with assorted bacteria (mostly harmless). Upshot: the U.S. Food & Drug Administration now requires all sulfa-powders to be heat-sterilized and carefully packaged. At least one person has already died of tetanus when unsterile sulfapyradine was used following a pelvic operation. Tetanus germs are among the group which sulfa-drugs do not affect...
...type of childbirth anesthetic was reported last week in the American Journal of Surgery by Drs. Waldo Edwards and Robert Hingson, who developed it at the U.S. Marine Hospital (where wives of Coast Guardsmen have their babies) on Staten Island, N.Y. The anesthetic is continuous and localized in the pelvic region. A silver needle is inserted into the caudal area, just below the spinal column, where it remains throughout labor. The needle is connected with a flask of the anesthetic, two-thirds of an ounce of which is administered every 30 or 40 minutes. Longest labor during which the anesthetic...