Word: pleura
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
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