Word: pregnantly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prove pregnancy in its early stages, obstetricians generally use a simple urine test. In the Aschheim-Zondek test, they inject a female mouse with a urine specimen; in the Friedman test (faster and easier to read), a virgin doe rabbit gets the injection. If the patient is pregnant, hormones in the urine produce easily detectable changes in the animal's ovaries. The Friedman test, which takes two days to complete, can spot pregnancy with 98% accuracy* ten days after the first missed period...
Page's method involves testing for a substance called pitocinase, an enzyme found in a pregnant woman's blood. Pitocinase neutralizes pitocin, a mysterious pituitary hormone which seems to play a part in contracting the muscles of the uterus. As pregnancy advances, the amount of pitocinase in the blood increases at an exactly predictable rate. By measuring the concentration of pitocinase, Page determines the stage of pregnancy. His measurement method: a strip of uterus from an elderly female rat is suspended in a solution containing pitocin and a patient's blood sample. If the patient...
Clothes for Callers. Her real start came when a pregnant customer asked Lane Bryant to make her something "comfortable and yet presentable." Mrs. Bryant made a tea gown in which the bodice was attached by an elastic band to an accordion-plaited skirt. This permitted comfort and style with expansion; with it Lane Bryant's business expanded...
...patient, a pregnant, 29-year-old Negro woman, had complained for months of severe pains in her abdomen. One day last week, as she approached full term, the pains got worse. In the osteopathic unit of Los Angeles County General Hospital, doctors X-rayed her, found to their astonishment that the uterus was only slightly enlarged. The baby was not there; it was thrashing about in the abdomen, its head under the liver and the rest of its body lodged against the stomach and intestines...
...same sources as its virtues. Author Brogan's erudition often climbs over the reader's head, his sensitiveness in matters French leads him into pretentious overuse of French words and phrases. Most, readers will be justly irritated, for example, at being obliged to swallow sentences as obscurely pregnant as the following: "In a sense, the noblesse de ĺépée was almost innocent compared with the noblesse de la robe. For the court nobility was at least true to form; the intriguers of oeil-de-boeuf were the spiritual as well as the fleshly heirs...