Word: slittings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spreaders." A bridgelike gadget was clamped in place; with a few turns of the screw it spread the ribs six inches apart. The assistants cut deeper through the chest. "Lung retractors." The heaving lungs were pushed aside. Many more blood vessels were tied off. Bailey slit the heart sac almost from top to bottom, took quick stitches in it, left long threads which were clamped to the rib spreaders to hold the sac open...
...Person to Person that there is talk of signing her for a daily women's show on TV. But if that does not work out, she will be content to go on singing in the clubs, where she is much in demand. Apparently, in a world of perennially slit skirts and plunging necklines there is a real need for Roberta's ample figure, off-the-rack dresses and cardigan sweaters...
Reddish and only ¼in. long, the fire ant has a peculiar talent: it chews a slit in the skin of its victim, lifts the skin with its mandibles, curves its abdomen under its body and injects a dose of fluid which causes fiery pain, raises angry welts, and may form a pocket of pus. Victims highly sensitive to ant poison may be hospitalized for weeks; a baby in New Orleans was killed by the ants...
After elaborate tests had shown that the blood-starved muscle was dependent on flow from a branch of the patient's left circumflex artery, Dr. Bailey opened the man's chest, snipped some ribs and put them aside, then slit open the heart sac. He was fortunate in being able to see the site of the 1953 shutdown where the left circumflex was embedded in the heart wall. Near the end of the artery he made a slit: instead of a spurt of blood, as there would have been in a healthy subject, he got a mere trickle...
...double-jacketed plastic bag up to his neck. Through the bag they circulated ice water. When Hickey was chilled enough so that circulation could be almost stopped without fear of damage to his brain, the surgeons opened both his aorta and his heart. Through a slit in the aorta they slipped the stem of the tee-shaped gadget, then worked this down into the heart wall until its head plugged the blowout. After trimming off excess stem, they sewed the plug in place. Then they stitched up the incisions, closed Hickey's chest and let him thaw...