Word: sinusitis
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Headaches, doctors realize, are symptoms rather than diseases. Toothaches, hangovers and simple hunger can cause headaches that can be cured by dental work, black coffee and food. Chronic pain is occasionally a sign of a very serious problem, like brain tumors, and can require surgery. Decongestants may help sinus headaches, while those caused by allergies can be prevented by identifying and avoiding the substance that brings on the allergic reaction, a task that most physicians concede is far easier in theory than in practice...
...case not necessarily in counterpoint, take the 1971 American College Jazz Festival, held recently on the Urbana campus of the University of Illinois. While 15 groups from all over the country joined in, trumpets blared through sinus-shattering amplification, making it painfully clear that the young today seem to like their jazz every bit as loud as rock. Yet it was astounding to hear one band after another mix rock, the classics, or electronic compositions into fertile jazz blends. Even Guest Star Dizzy Gillespie, something of a master blender himself, had to take notice. The loudspeakers could not quite conceal...
...pressure changes encountered while passing through tunnels can cause discomforting pain in the sinus and the ears...
Each infarct, or area of dead muscle, can interfere with the flow of electrical impulses that serve as the heart's ignition system. Normally, a current is generated for each beat at the "sinus node" (situated where blood enters the upper right heart). The charge then passes through the walls of the two upper chambers (auricles), making them contract. Then the signal is channeled through the auriculoventricular node (where the heart's four chambers meet), and passes through the ventricles' walls...
...poison on 16 palace cats, all of which died. In 1958, at the controls of his de Havilland Dove on a flight to Europe, he was attacked by Syrian MIGS, escaped only by power-diving toward the desert floor and zigzagging across the border. In 1960, an attack of sinus trouble almost did him in: someone poured acid in his bottle of nose drops. The deed was discovered when a drop spilled on the sink and the King watched in fascination as it burned straight through the chrome fittings...