Word: sac
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After elaborate tests had shown that the blood-starved muscle was dependent on flow from a branch of the patient's left circumflex artery, Dr. Bailey opened the man's chest, snipped some ribs and put them aside, then slit open the heart sac. He was fortunate in being able to see the site of the 1953 shutdown where the left circumflex was embedded in the heart wall. Near the end of the artery he made a slit: instead of a spurt of blood, as there would have been in a healthy subject, he got a mere trickle...
Nonarticular Rheumatism. A grab-bag category. Includes bursitis (inflammation of the sac that helps reduce friction around a joint), myositis (inflammation of muscle tissues), fibrositis (muscle inflammation extending to connective tissues), tenosynovitis (inflammation of a tendon sheath), and such oddities as psychogenic rheumatism. Treatment: aspirin, possibly combined with hormones such as cortisone, prednisone and prednisolone. Codeine helps kill the pain, and heat is helpful. In bursitis, surgery is sometimes used to scrape calcified deposits from the inside of a bursa. In psychogenic rheumatism no physical cause can be found for the patient's undeniable physical ills. Symptoms most often...
...aneurysm (ballooning blister) often develops on the muscular wall of the ventricle after a heart attack (estimated U.S. incidence: 25,000 to 200,000 cases a year). Famed Philadelphia Surgeon Charles P. Bailey believes that many such aneurysms can be greatly improved by surgery. By clamping off the blister sac, amputating it and stitching up the ventricle wall, his team got good results in seven out of eight cases-far better than the "dismal prospects with conservative management...
...differing with respected colleagues such as SAC Chief Curtis LeMay, who last spring warned that by 1960 the Soviet air force would be the world's mightiest, Twining was taking into account information that had not been available to LeMay: what he and his aides had seen, heard and sensed in Russia (TIME, July...
Like Any Other Funds. Calmly Wilson told the committee he knew that such earlier witnesses as Air Force Chief of Staff Nathan F. Twining and SAC Boss Curtis LeMay had warned that the Soviet Union might overtake the U.S. in airpower. But frankly, he disagreed with them. Some of the disagreement he attributed to honest differences of opinion, some to congressional misinterpretation, some to "eager-beaver" speechwriters of the armed forces. But he was sure that the U.S. has and will keep an all-important qualitative lead over the Russians...