Word: stomachly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...acts of breathing and swallowing, movements of the diaphragm, abnormal action within the thorax, motions of joints. The relative thickness of the abdomen makes photographing the movements of its organs less satisfactory. Two seconds is too brief to get a good picture of the complete peristaltic wave of the stomach. But two seconds is enough to portray an ulcer in the fluctuating stomach or in the fluctuating duodenum...
Such worms may travel from the intestines to the stomach whence they may be vomited, to the nose, to the middle ear, to the larynx where they occasionally cause fatal suffocation, to the common bile duct where they may cause jaundice, to the pancreas, to the vermiform appendix. A child who suffers from digestive disturbances, capricious appetite, abdominal pains, gas, vomiting, restlessness and irritability, itchy nose, grinding of the teeth, foul breath, headache, dizziness, cough, convulsions, anemia, peakedness may be suffering from roundworms...
...down to a deadweight and keep her from taking up with a live possibility. The rival's husband is a stodgy jurist who spends his time writing minority decisions and listening to the Woops radio hour, but he is endeared to the public by the possession of a weak stomach. Anyway, Miss Cowl is forced to spend most of play in frantic and comical efforts to break the rising momentum to which she gave the first push...
...Clinicians are familiar with malignant changes taking place in lesions produced by germs, particularly syphilitic lesions in the mouth and in tuberculosis of the skin. In the Rockefeller Institute Laboratory we have seen the production of cancer of the stomach following experimental infection by a nematode, that is, a kind of worm, and malignant changes in the liver associated with tapeworm cysts...
...demonstrate how rapidly capillaries react to heat and cold. Dr. Fred Bennett Moor of Los Angeles had a fellow doctor take a drink of ice water while holding his arm immersed in a tank of water. Soon as the cold drink made itself felt in the demonstrator's stomach, water level in the tank fell measurably, thus indicating that the cooled stomach drew blood from the capillaries of the arm. Consequently the capillaries shrank, and the bulk of the arm with them. These changes must have some effect on heart and lungs, argued Dr. Moor, urging doctors to search...