Word: sinus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...covering, and the resulting abrasive action between the heart and its sac adds to the inflammation and causes the heart and the sac to adhere. When that happens, a richer supply of blood passes to the damaged heart through the walls of the sac. A large vein (the coronary sinus) is then tied to slow drainage from the heart, and a piece of fat in the heart sac is sewed to the heart surface in the hope that it will provide additional circulation...
...Crimson's Dave Hawkins was scratched from this relay and the medley tomorrow because it was erroneously feared that he had the mumps. His teammate Jack Edwards was also out, with sinus trouble. Hawkins will be able to swim the butterfly tomorrow, however...
...girls' brainpans, suggesting that they may have entirely distinct nervous systems and bloodstreams. If so, separating them should be far easier than with the Brodies, of whom only Rodney Dee survived. But doctors still could not be sure that the girls did not share a single sagittal sinus (a major vein returning blood from the top of the brain toward the heart). It was this defect that proved fatal to Roger Lee Brodie. Before surgery is attempted, the twins will be studied for months by the same medical team that operated on the Brodies...
...that has fallen upon Wisconsin's Joe McCarthy since his spectacular political career began. Last week, when the committee was putting the final touches on its report, McCarthy canceled the only three speeches he had scheduled before the election. His aides said that he was troubled by a sinus condition, would have to enter a hospital...
...Some common psychosomatic symptoms can be mistaken for the common cold reported the University of Oklahoma's Dr Stewart Wolf. Hostility to the boss or resentment against mother-in-law as well as guilt and frustration can produce a stuffy head with "sinus headache" and a runny nose, as the body tries to wash out mother-in-law as it does dust or other irritants...