Word: phrenic
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...enough to attend T.C. Williams public high school, where he is an honor student and a member of the French and Latin clubs. Unable to breathe without assistance, Bob has been fitted with an Avery Diaphragm Pacer, which uses a battery-powered transmitter to send electric impulses to his phrenic nerve. This causes his diaphragm to contract, simulating normal breathing. "Without this technology, Bobby wouldn't be alive," says Dr. Alan Fields, associate director of critical care at Children's Hospital in Washington...
Some people at Harvard will simply have schizo phrenic loyalties. "I was an undergraduate and did my Ph.D at Yale, but I've also been at Harvard for 34 years," said Stephen Williams, Peabody Professor of American Archeology. "I've been deeply involved in the undergraduate program, so I don't care desperately for one or the other," he confessed "I also understand the family rivalry because I had a twin brother at Princeton...
...every office is the same-cracked jaundiced walls, covered with a schizo-phrenic mixture of fists and spread figures, schedules, stickers, and notes...
...reflex arc of mechanism usually involved in hiccups is not entirely understood. The phrenic and vagus nerves are known to be part of it; Dr. Salem thought that it might often include irritation of the trachea, or windpipe. Using a catheter introduced through the nose, he and his colleagues tried spraying the back of the throat with a local anesthetic. They soon noticed, however, that the mere introduction of the catheter stopped the hiccups without drugs...
...from now. If that happens, the surgeons may move in and sever the nerve completely. "The part of the diaphragm that the nerve controls will then no longer function," explained one of Lucy's doctors. "But you lose only 25% of your breathing capacity when you lose one phrenic nerve-which is nothing to the average person." Lucy agrees with enthusiasm. "Not one hiccup," she exulted. "I've even been trying to hiccup...