Search Details

Word: resective (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1945-1945
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Said a doctor standing by: "Look at that. First they take out the spleen, then they resect [cut and mend] the small bowel, next they sew up the rent in the colon. In civilian life any one of those would be regarded as a major operation." Before the two doctors finished, they had removed a total of nearly two feet of gut, which they tossed into a wastebasket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: On Iwo Jima | 3/19/1945 | See Source »

| 1 |