Word: swollen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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James A. Rousmaniere '40, director of the Harvard College Fund, explained yesterday that Stanford's figures had been temporarily swollen by a fund-raising campaign and a Ford Foundation grant...
When circulation through the liver is blocked by disease, the blood backs up into the veins lining the gullet (esophagus) and sometimes the stomach as well. The swollen, twisted veins are called varices. Their thin walls are prone to break and let blood ooze, or even gush, into the digestive tract. To squeeze the veins shut and thus stop the bleeding, two New York surgeons, Dr. Robert W. Sengstaken and Dr. Arthur H. Blakemore, devised a most ingenious triple tube...
...doll children with pasty faces, strolling tradesmen stolidly strutting with their canes, spreading ladies slickly fitted into a colorful armor of corsets. Lindner's pictorial poseurs hobnob in a funhouse atmosphere where floors that seem to slant up actually slide down and ripple-mirrors reflect limbs as if swollen with elephantiasis...
...pair. The black brother, Zachariah (James Earl Jones), is one of nature's children, open-faced and openhanded. He tends a park gate where he shoos away any colored child who tries to enter. Every night Morris readies a ritualistic footbath for Zach's raw, swollen feet. But in the realm of color, skin-deep is heartdeep and there is no balm for those abrasions...
Bowler's Thumb. Internist Berry's handbook is an up-to-date endorsement of old-fashioned observation. When a patient has hands with swollen-tipped, "clubbed" fingers, and if there is also reddish-brown coloration to the skin at the base of the nails, says Dr. Berry, the man is suffering from cyanotic heart disease. "Blue babies" (with Fallot's tetralogy) develop similar signs, but when surgery has sealed the leak between the right and left sides of the heart, the clubbing and the discoloration dramatically disappear. If the pigmentation is not present, the spatulate fingers...