Word: pelvic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rock-A-Bye-Bear is a Teddy bear that makes cranky infants drop right off to sleep. How? It is implanted with a device that plays the soothing sounds babies hear while still in the womb: the pulsing thump and whoosh made by blood coursing through their mothers' pelvic arteries...
...facing permanent impotence resulting from surgery for cancers in the pelvic region, diabetes, spinal cord injuries or other physical causes-and for those whose problem is psychological in origin and is not helped by therapy-two kinds of penile implants are available. In one operation, which takes about an hour, an incision is made in the penis or just behind the scrotum and a semirigid silicone rod is inserted into each of the corpora cavernosa. Another technique is to implant only one rod between the two structures. The most popular device, developed in 1972 by Urologists Michael Small and Hernan...
...electronic monitoring was introduced in the mid-1960s, but there is little evidence linking the two. Moreover, critics say that the benefits are uncertain and that there is risk to the baby of laceration and infection of the scalp and respiratory problems, and to the mother of uterine perforation, pelvic infections and an unnecessary Caesarean section should the monitoring mistakenly indicate the baby is in distress...
...shaped stage handsomely conduces to Gladys Bumps' (played by Debbie Danielpour) smoldering dance number, as she belts out, "I'm a red hot mama but I'm blue on you." Danielpour's pelvic thrusts initiated catcalls from the crowd, and the gutsiness she poured into the song more than compensated for any small flaws in the singing...
While female carriers usually do not exhibit symptoms, according to Wacker, at least one of the forms of NGU may cause inflammatory pelvic disease which can lead to sterility. "Doctors have to recognize this disease as sexually transmitted and realize that it poses a real danger to the female," Dr. William W. McCormack, professor of Medicine, said yesterday...