Word: shutdowns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shutdown in a brain artery by a clot,, called a thrombosis if the clot forms at the site, or an embolism if the clot is formed elsewhere-usually the heart-and travels through the arteries to the brain...
Sweden, with an economy dependent on oil for half of all fuel needs (compared with 13% for Britain, and only 9% for Germany), has been harder hit by the Suez shutdown than any other European country. Raw material imports already cost 5% more; the government's budgeted $100 million surplus has turned into a deficit...
...victim of arteriosclerosis has a shutdown in an easily accessible artery (e.g., thigh or arm), surgeons can cut out the diseased section and splice in a graft, or split the artery lengthwise and scrape out the bottleneck deposit. At a Chicago medical meeting last week, specialists were speculating on what seemed only a possibility-that a similar technique could be used to scrape out the coronary arteries in case of shutdowns in the heart (coronary thrombosis or occlusion). Whereupon Philadelphia's famed Heart Surgeon Charles P. Bailey rose to report, in effect: "I have just done...
...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. Through this slit Dr. Bailey inserted the business...
There was one small, slim chance to bring off his defiance: to take his case to the United Nations. Premier Nagy must have realized that this act would, in effect, be the signal for the final Soviet shutdown, but he took...