Word: slit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week, officials of the Manhattan Eye, Ear & Throat Hospital revealed that they are building an artificial socket for an artificial eye in the head of a one-eyed baby. Plastic operations began 18 months ago when the baby, a blue-eyed blonde, was 18 months old. Surgeons first slit the skin where her second eye should have been and reamed out a cavity. When this healed, surgeons lined the cavity with mucous membrane taken from the inner surfaces of her cheeks. In the next few days the surgeons expect to give the child eyelashes and blinkable lids by fastening...
...When he slit open the sac, the pink buttocks of a five-month fetus protruded. In attempting to lift out the fetus, Dr. Brunkow felt some resistance: the mon ster's head was attached to the sac. Dr. Brunkow cut this attachment and then found that the inclusion's liver, which had developed outside its body, was also attached to the sac. Another nick of a scalpel freed Barbara Stobie of her ab normal burden and permitted Dr. Brunkow to close her up. He left the skin-like sac within her, to be removed at some more favorable...
...basement, John Nelson, 17, was working on a lathe. His teacher was standing about five feet away. There were 15 other boys in the room. Then a big mass of sand and what looked like a ball of fire tumbled in. Something hit John Nelson's leg and slit the front of his pants. It felt "like a charley horse you get playing football...
...with a slit in the top there instead. But students don't go around loaded with pennies, and they began to establish credit accounts by depositing dimes and drawing thereon day by day. And the graph of his profits and losses looked like a drunk trying to write "swimming...
First the surgeons cut two-inch-long slits into the patient's scalp down to the bone. Each slit lies slightly more than an inch away from the midline of the skull and crosses a line running across the head from ear to ear. At each junction of the ear-to-ear line and the slits in the scalp, Drs. Freeman & Watts drill a hole with a dentist's bur. The bur holes permit passage of a leucotome, or lobotomy cannula, a hollow needle through which a loop of wire can be slipped...