Word: tendons
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Bill Jackson sat back in his corner, pulled off his pants and massaged his knee. "Boss," he said, 'I have a wrenched tendon. I just can't bear it any longer. Knew it wasn't much good any more when a little while ago I could barely...
...around each bout to call the touches and check on fencing protocol. The undergraduates who crossed blades in the National Collegiate Fencing Championships last week could be sure no opponent would blind them with a handful of dust; no one would slip a sword through their legs, slice a tendon and leave them to be skewered at leisure...
...team's weakest event is the pole vault, which has only two candidates, one of whom has been inactive since the beginning of the season because of a pulled tendon. Dave Richard, the other vaulter, has been filling in well for the injured Lauren Studebaker...
There have been 16 more operations, many of them of surpassing delicacy, to graft tendons from the foot to the hand and connect them with muscles in the boy's forearm. One of the most crucial, done early this year, was a tendon transfer to give Terry an apposable left thumb. It worked. Last week, as the bandages came off after a minor operation, Terry could appose his thumb well enough to hold his fork in his left hand. British style...
...blood was jetting out more than a foot. I was afraid the car would catch on fire, so I got my knife out of my pocket and went to work. The skin was not too hard to cut, but every time I chopped through a tendon I felt a jerk in the nerves of my neck. The cutting was made easier by the fact that bones in the arm were broken through. I just followed the line of the break with the blade of my knife...