Word: sternum
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...just for the sake of doing it better, faster or especially these days, smaller, has its own attraction. Surgeons who sew arteries went from repairing ones you could see across the room to ones you can barely see with the naked eye. Heart operations, in which they sawed your sternum in half and stopped your heart with ice-water, are now done with a neat little 3-in. cut under your rib while your warm ticker beats on merrily. We did our total hips and knees through smaller and smaller incisions until a couple of years ago. All that stretching...
Indeed–though it took some getting used to. The MFA’s theatre is basically a clean, white lecture hall with a stage at the bottom. The sound system is very good, but won’t exactly vibrate your sternum. In a way, the concert was like a high-end high school assembly...
...great effort of the imagination to believe the statistic that at least 3 in 10 people who receive the latter diagnosis spend much of the balance of their life in a funk. "The fear that I have with this cancer," says Shinta, 48, whose disease has spread to her sternum and the lining of her lungs, "is the process of death. I don't want it to be long. I don't want my family to have to cope with it for a long time." For a cure, Shinta and thousands of Australians like her are at the mercy...
...with junior Reka Cserny sent to the sidelines with a bruised sternum and the Leopards creeping back into the game as the second half began, Harvard desperately needed a stopgap to prevent the struggles it has endured all season long with its starting center riding the pine...
With junior center Reka Cserny sent to the sidelines after injuring her sternum while attempting to draw a charging foul, Peljto shouldered the lion’s share of the load, particularly in the low post...