Word: pyorrhea
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Even this grisly story is lightened by comic touches. Charley's family gathers gloomily around the radio and hears Gabriel Heatter, the doom-laden commentator, warn "of dreaded pyorrhea." On another occasion, Charley, in adolescent bravado, adds "the suicide caper to his repertoire of small talk, using it to fascinate women." Alas, it only bores them. As a companion piece to Factory, the story sharply emphasizes Sheed's overall theme: the harmful consequences of clutching at visions of the past, whether they are mythical but life-sustaining visions like Jimmy's or real but death-dealing ones...
...irreverent study of the numbers game called How to Lie with Statistics, Author Darrell Huff coined the word "statisticulation"-the art of lying with statistics while seeming objective. One trade that statisticulates regularly is advertising. A nostrum for piles or pyorrhea is endorsed by eight cut of ten physicians because the ad agency has tirelessly spent time and money assembling panel after panel until it finds one that shows an eight-out-of-ten result...
...Lynch, are caused by "the same factors that contribute to what we call success in life." Hard-driving businessmen seeking release from stress clench their teeth, jut their jaws, grind their molars-both on the job and in their sleep. In cases of irregular bite, this leads to pyorrhea, which causes the bone around the tooth to dissolve. Result: the teeth loosen and may fall...
...yellow atrophy of the liver, doubted that they could save her unborn offspring. They tried anyway, and just before Mrs. Johnson died they delivered, by Caesarean section, three boys, each around 3¾ lbs. This week, the triplets were doing fine in incubators. ¶More teeth are lost from pyorrhea than decay, Tuft's College Professor Irving Glickman told Greater New York dentists, and pyorrhea is essentially a disease not of the gums but of bone. Treatment, therefore, must cover the patient's calcium metabolism and hormone balance, not just his mouth...
Later he became a very important citizen, perhaps the king of his people, and lived until he was about 70 years old. By that time he could not have been too unwilling to die. He was suffering from pyorrhea (infected jaw) and two painful and deforming diseases of the spine which even modern doctors cannot cure...