Word: scalpeled
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...knew of his many misdeeds, was planning to leave Iraq, he invited him to his 37th-birthday party and had him arrested. An eyewitness at the prison where the man was held says members of the Fedayeen grabbed his tongue with pliers and sliced it off with a scalpel so he could not talk. A maid who cleaned one of Uday's houses says she once saw him lop off the ear of one of his guards and then use a welder's torch on his face...
Okay, so I’m not special agent Jack Bauer from 24. That’s clear from my inability to come back from the dead after being hit with a tazer, cut numerous times with a scalpel and flat-lining in the hands of terrorists...
...went to Atlantic City, N.J., for a convention; several days later, he showed up at the Akron train station, smashed. On June 10, the dried-out but still jittery doctor was due in surgery. That morning, Bill W. gave Dr. Bob a bottle of beer--to steady his scalpel hand. The operation was a success. The beer was Dr. Bob's last. And the two men pledged that day to work to bring Bill W.'s principles to other alcoholics, one day at a time. --By James Poniewozik
...Narayan Khandekar and his staff plan to begin analysis of the thick layer of residue obscuring the paintings to determine exactly what was deposited in each portion of the painting. Paint chips smaller than a printed period were extracted from portions of the mural with the tip of a scalpel. The specks of paint are then mounted in resin, magnified 250 times and viewed using digital computer imaging...
...expose patients to a tiny bit of the very thing that causes them anxiety, ratcheting up the exposure over a number of sessions until the brain habituates to the fear. A patient suffering from a blood phobia, for example, might first be shown a picture of a scalpel or syringe, then a real syringe, then a vial of blood and so on up the anxiety ladder until there are no more rungs to climb. There is a risk that if treatment is cut short (before the patient has become inured to the anxiety triggers), the anxious feelings could be exacerbated...