Word: prongs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hinges, Dr. Flatt cuts back the ends of both bones that form the defective ball-and-socket joint. He also removes any remaining parts of the synovial membrane, which encloses the natural joint, because this is an important site of arthritic disease. He inserts the double-prong ends of the two hinge parts into the squishy centers (marrow canals) of the cut-off bones. Muscles and tendons must then be slipped into their proper places with exquisite care...
...Curved Prongs. The predicted difficulty of spotting omega proved to be only too real. At least five search parties in separate laboratories reported no luck. Then, under the leadership of Yugoslav Physicist Dr. Bodgan C. Maglic, scientists at the University of California's famed Lawrence Radiation Laboratory analyzed 2,500 photographs of the four-prong stars found when antiprotons shot from Berkeley's bevatron accelerator collide with protons in a bubble chamber. Each star shows four curved lines made by negative and positive pions (pi mesons) created by the collision. There seemed to be a slight chance that...