Word: skulled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eardrum. Sound waves striking the drum set up vibrations which are transmitted through the three delicate lever-bones of the middle ear-the "hammer, anvil and stirrup"-into the inner ear. There the main sound-wave receiver is sunk deep in a massive bone at the base of the skull. This receiver is a winding snail of bone, the cochlea, filled with fluid, lined with feathery nerve endings. These nerve endings pick up incoming sound waves, relay them to the auditory nerve, which carries them to the brain...
...fifteenth of March, by the ruthless suppression of the freedom of the Czechs, its captain hoisted the Skull and Crossbones of the pirate, cynically discarded his own theory of racial purity and appeared under his true colors as an unprincipled menace to European peace and liberty...
...Oakland, Calif. There the poet's ardent daughter, Juanita, has set up his room just as it used to be, quill pen, half-smoked cigar, demijohn and, in the old bed, under the same old patchwork quilt, a blackened bust of the old boy wearing his red, tasseled skull...
...Paul Frederick Adam Hoefer, who came from Boston with Dr. Putnam. Close kin to a sensitive short-wave radio is the electroencephalograph. Tiny lead electrodes are pasted to the patient's scalp. From the electrodes fine, threadlike wires lead to the machine which detects, through scalp and skull, faint electric brain impulses. A connected drum and ink recorder charts patterns. Normal frequency is ten shallow, rippling, regular waves a second. Abnormal brain waves, often running to 25 a second, show up as irregular plateaus, spikes or scallops. Skilled interpreters can read characteristic abnormal wave patterns as indications of approaching...
Civilian casualties from air raids present a gruesome but not a professionally difficult problem to medicine. Nowadays medical treatment for civilians in wartime is primarily a problem in organization, and to doctors air raids mean nothing more than a monstrous epidemic of chest, neck and skull wounds, of broken arms, legs and backs. Furthermore, while an ordinary epidemic catches doctors unawares, this era's doctors have had plenty of time to prepare...