Word: polymorphonuclear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first stage, the dead muscle tissue is carried away in the blood stream by polymorphonuclear leukocytes ("scavenger" cells), and at the end of about a week scar tissue starts to form in its place. This process usually causes fever and an increase in white blood cell count. But as the scar tissue-in Ike's case forming in the front wall of the heart-becomes stronger and more dead cells disappear, temperature and blood count return to normal. At the same time, the heart is developing collateral circulation. Immediately after a clot forms, the pressure drops in the area...
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