Word: renals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Peterson, a specialist in endocrinology and renal disease at the Salt Lake Clinic, graduated from the Harvard Medical School in 1956. He then served as an intern and resident in New Haven before returning to Utah. In addition to his medical practice, he is a clinical instructor in the University of Utah Medical School and Director of the Medical Education Committee of the Latter Day Saints Hospital. A Morman, he also serves on the Community Council for Racial Equality...
...happy accident occurred, said Dr. C. Thomas Flotte (pronounced Float), while he was treating a patient with a clot in one of the renal veins. Dr. Flotte took a presurgery blood sample, and the laboratory reported a cholesterol level of about 400 mg., or double the normal. During the operation, the patient received a pint of dextran, both to maintain his blood volume and to reduce clotting. Then he got a pint a day for two days. Dr. Flotte sent a fresh blood sample to the lab and got back a cholesterol reading...
Subbookkeeper is the only English word that contains four successive pairs of letters. Triennially is one of the very few English words in which the odd and the even letters spell two complete words: tinily and renal. The longest English word that can be typed in the top letter line of a typewriter is-typewriter? The longest English word without an e in it is floccinaucinihilipilification (the action or habit of estimating things as worthless...
...renal artery bypass...
...almost accidental discovery was made after doctors at Memorial had all but given up hope for a patient dying of renal failure. The vaunted artificial kidney could no longer clear the poisons from his blood, and only a transplant offered any hope. But the only kidney available was far from promising. The donor had type A blood while the kidney patient had type O. Worse, the donor's kidney was infected and was about to be removed because it was draining improperly. It had already been physically damaged by obstruction resulting from cancer of the colon...