Word: pleura
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...years from a cancer-like malignant tumor that they will contract from constant exposure to asbestos, exposure that as urban dwellers they cannot now avoid. This fatal growth, called mesothelioma, can develop twenty to forty years after its victims begin to inhale the asbestos fiber. The tumor attacks the pleura and peritonium--the membrane sacks that surround the lung and abdominal cavities--and can grow whether or not the exposure continues. Most alarming of all, the number of asbestos fibers in the air around us increases every year...
...their latest findings, Drs. Sandlow and Necheles report equal accuracy in other hard-to-detect forms of cancer. The test was positive and accurate in seven out of seven cases of cancer of the pancreas, in 12 out of 12 who had cancer involving the pleura (the lining of the chest cavity), and in 12 more with cancer of the abdominal cavity...
...Overby, 9, and her mother had been motoring near the city. Their car became entangled in a fallen high-power transmission line. Mrs. Overby was electrocuted. Rescuers rushed Marie to Little Rock where hospital attendants discovered a nine-inch hole burned through her left chest wall. Flesh, ribs and pleura were gone. The left lung had collapsed. But her heart was beating strongly. She said she felt no pain. There was no possible hope of saving her. So the doctors, mindful of the professional value of an exposed heart action, dragged in a moving picture camera, photographed the puzzled little...
...computed that a man needs 23,000 cubic feet of air every day, that his excretions of carbonic acid may not pollute the air. Pleurisy not only affects the lungs but the diaphragm, which is the principal agent in drawing air into the lungs. The enlargement of the pleura forces the air out of the air cells, thin walls are brought into contact with each other, and the whole lung in an airless condition may be pressed into the back part of the chest alongside of the back bone, where it lies as useless, as far as breathing is concerned...
...that by virtue of their elasticity they can expel a large part of the air which they contain when inflated. A certain amount, however, always remains. As the heart is enclosed in a sort of sack called the pericardium, so are the lungs enclosed in a sack, the pleura, the inner part of which passes over the outside of the lungs and the outer part lines the inside of the chest. In health there is nothing between these two surfaces but a little moisture which helps them to slip easily on each other; a matter of importance, as the lungs...
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