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...corpsmen began excision of parts of the first body. The surgeons removed long sections of both ascending and descending aorta. With a dermatome they took skin, only 15/1,000 of an inch thick, from the trunk and legs. Next came fascia (connective tissue) from the thighs. They also took pelvic bone. Each item was measured, labeled and prepared for storage. At 3:30 a.m. the operations ended, and the tissue bank's doors-imprinted with the proud legend Ex Morte Vita (Life from Death)-were shut...
...high degree of probability" when they are only a few years old, reported New York City's Dr. Irving Kowaloff in the New York State Journal of Medicine. Examples, based on statistical studies of large numbers of children: when a boy is two years old, his height and pelvic breadth should be multiplied by two, his weight by five, to predict what his measurements will be when he is 18. The same formula applies to girls' dimensions, except that weight and height should be calculated at the age of 18 months instead of two years. ¶ U.S. children...
Jean Simmons sings sharp, in a voice that is not much better, but she flings herself into Sarah's saturnalia with a pelvic hullabaloo that should make the public forget about her upper register. Vivian Elaine, the only big name held over from the Broadway cast, is just right as the blonde who celebrates her anniversary (14 years engaged) by catching a cold in her Bronxial tubes; and when she screeches Take Back Your Mink ("to from whence it came"), the evening is made. Frank Sinatra, as Nathan Detroit, not only acts as if he can't tell...
Compared with other more complex organs, the bladder has a relatively simple structure and function. It is a remarkably elastic, muscular sac lying in the pelvic cavity. It receives urine from the kidneys through two slender tubes called ureters, expands to pint or even quart size as it stores urine, then contracts and discharges it from the body through a third tube called a urethra. People with no bladders, or with diseased bladders, usually live in great discomfort and with considerable danger of serious kidney infection...
...smooth!" says the first of them (Shawn Smith), and Quinn begins to rumba toward a sofa, gently oscillating her pelvic region with a towel. "Don't press your luck," warns the second (Mary Ellen Kay), but it is not his luck that Anthony presses...