Word: splanchnic
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...Because of the formidable nature of this operation, an effort is now being made to develop a modification of the splanchnic nerve resection," said Dr. Adson who explained that he removes only a section of the twelfth pair of ribs, cuts a few handy sympathetic nerves, excises a chunk from each adrenal gland...
Besides lowering blood pressure rhizotomy or splanchnic resection "leads to disappearance of perspiration on the legs and lower abdomen, increases the warmth of these parts of the body, and turns them slightly more pink than usual...
Fiddlesticks to all of Professor Laird's speculation about hemastatics and splanchnic pools! Fiddlesticks, too, to the A. M. A.'s visceral tensions...
...explanation: "We still have to discover a definite scientific basis for the practice of sleeping head forward on trains. . . . Hemastatics may justify head forward position, since with the head forward the fluid inertia of the blood would cause it to accumulate in the splanchnic (abdominal) pool and thus render the brain relatively anemic. This would increase drowsiness and assist in going to sleep in the noisy and vibrating berth, but would not necessarily make the sleep one whit more refreshing, in fact, possibly the exact opposite...
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