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...deferens (literally, the "carrying-away vessel") arises from each testicle to carry the spermatozoa to the prostate gland where the seminal fluid is finally compounded for ejaculation through the urethra. Near its origin in the scrotum, the vas deferens is readily accessible to the surgeon's scalpel...
...cold-eyed and ruthlessly honest Philadelphia realist. Aside from the poet, whom Ea kins portrayed in 1888 as a twinkling old sage, few people could stand having their character laid bare with the visceral objectivity that Eakins brought to portraiture. He used his brush like a surgeon's scalpel, exposing old wounds, concealed ambitions, ill manners. The commissions he did receive often ended unpleasantly; his studio was littered with rejected portraits. One fashionable lady, dismayed at what was taking shape on canvas, asked if her maid might finish the sittings...
...highways smash and crash through whole neighborhoods, debouch a torrent of autos into already traffic-choked streets. Owings' team, which includes engineers, traffic and transit consultants as well as architects, intends to wield its power to direct Interstate 95's path through Baltimore as delicately as a surgeon's scalpel, avoiding historic areas, living organic communities and parks, while improving marginal areas. Only nine months along in a two-year study, the team has already recommended that the road bypass a stable Negro neighborhood, and is finding new possibilities for building schools over the highway...
...precision and penetrating power of laser beams have, as predicted, given them entree to the operating room, where they can cut into human and animal tissue as delicately as a finely honed scalpel. Even better, the laser knife does not draw blood. Its searing but highly localized heat cauterizes capillaries and other blood vessels as they are severed. Like ordinary light, laser beams pass through transparent substances but are absorbed by darker, opaque materials. Thus they flash harmlessly through the cornea and lens of the eyeball to weld a detached retina back into place, or puncture small holes...
Married. Ronald Searle, 47, scalpel-sharp British cartoonist, creator of the spindly legged fiends known as the Belles of St. Trinian's; and Monica Stirling, fiftyish, British novelist (The Boy in Blue) and Searle's longtime companion; he for the second time; in Paris...