Word: strochavi
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...kissed, her eyes grew great with fright. On the child's head was a lump, a lump she had never seen before, and she knew every tiny spot on her baby's body. Something horrible must have happened. She telephoned Dr. Strochavi. Would he please, please rush over at once...
...Strochavi examined the lump. Was the lump present at birth? No, her baby had been a "clean" baby. He felt the lump. The infant screamed. Contusion? There was no sign of bruising. Caput succedaneum, the deep bruising of the scalp layer immediately next to the bony skull? Probably not. Inflammation or abscess of the scalp? No. There were no signs of erysipelas, wounds, boils, suppurating sweat glands, and very little likelihood of any decay of a bone in the skull. Encephalocele, a tumor formed by the sticking out through the soft infantile skull of the membranes of the brain, with...
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