Word: sinus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...open-heart operation using a heart-lung machine to remove Kelley's bullet. But no less remarkable than Kelley's survival was the strange and tortuous route that the bullet fragment had followed. Slowed by smashing through his skull, it had landed in the left transverse sinus (a large vein). Then it had ''flowed" in the blood stream along the transverse sinus, down the main jugular vein and superior vena cava, into the right auricle (upper chamber) of the heart and through the tricuspid valve into the right ventricle. Thanks to the heart's muscular...
...other change is at 147, where Phil Emmi, another sophomore, will wrestle in place of Daniels. Howie Durfee, a star last year at 137 had hoped to wrestle today, but a sinus infection has set back his training and he will not be in shape until after the Christman vacation...
...capitalize on a man's misfortune. We never mentioned it." Lyndon's comment sent reporters scrambling for phones, caused many an eyebrow to arch in puzzlement-including Dwight Eisenhower's. Leaving Walter Reed Hospital after treatment for a respiratory ailment that resulted in sinus and ear infections, Ike declared when newsmen questioned him about Johnson's statement: "I can't recall...
...High Blood Pressure. In the vast majority of cases, the cause of high blood pressure is unknown. The one thing certain is that the pressure can be influenced by the carotid nerves and the carotid nerve sinuses on each side of the neck. Two research teams have begun work almost simultaneously on electrical control of these "barorecep-tors" with "baropacers" to be implanted like heart pacemakers. At the A.M.A. convention in San Francisco, Dr. Aydin Bilgutay of the University of Minnesota showed a baropacer which picks up pulses of current from two electrodes implanted in the heart and uses those...
...planes to evacuate them to the Laotian capital of Vientiane, 120 miles away. In his ramshackle, tin-roofed headquarters, guarded night and day by a patrolling platoon of tanks, Kong Le worked round the clock drawing up a battle plan, although weakened by a liver ailment and a serious sinus condition...