Word: rectal
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...outside, but they had contact with people from outside. Then there was the courtroom itself: during recesses throngs of people milled about the dock and papers were passed back & forth. Not since the day Göring entered Nürnberg prison was he forced to submit to a rectal examination. Other parts of his body (his ears, for instance) went unexamined...
...pros & cons, from which a surgeon may choose. For abdominal operations, for example, some surgeons prefer a spinal anesthetic. Other surgeons avoid spinals because they entail a somewhat greater risk of complications (e.g., occasional paralyses, persistent headaches and other late effects) than anesthetic gases. Many patients prefer the new rectal anesthetics because they leave none of the aftereffects which ether usually produces. Some doctors contend that nearly all the unpleasant effects of ether (vomiting, nausea, etc.) can be avoided if the anesthetist is properly skilled...
...screen meant food, that an elliptical light meant none. Then the ellipse was gradually rounded out until it was nearly circular, but no food. This psychological double-cross sent the dog into a nervous state called traumatic neurosis, from which he had to be rescued by rest and daily rectal instillations of bromides. An obedient motorist is conditioned to stop at a red light, to proceed at a green. But Dr. Fabing's research marked the green as a treacherous come-on, since often just when a motorist steps on the accelerator the green light changes...
...local, State and Federal Governments. Most of the Governors forthwith boarded a special train to Washington, put their proposition to President Roosevelt at a White House luncheon (see p. 9). Maryland's unhappy Nice was rushed home in a New Jersey State Police ambulance for an emergency operation (rectal abscess...
Axillary (underarm) temperature readings are taken when the patient is too ill or restless to permit rectal or oral readings. Dr. Holbrook seems to have witnessed a record performance...