Word: thighed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...police that the boardmen were still in their automobile. Finding a raised drawbridge in their path, they doubled back, sped unharmed through the helpless posse. The police caught up again, burst their quarry's rear tires with a blast of bullets. A slug plowed through Boardman Sykes' thigh, pinked Boardman Stephens...
Spiked Hips. The unshapely knob at the top of the thigh bone (femur) is the hip bone. When a person, especially if elderly, falls the knob is apt to break off from the thigh bone. Healing has been a tremendously difficult and painful process. Last year Dr. David Robert Telson of Brooklyn suggested piercing the knob and shaft and lacing them together with stout piano wire. This procedure works to a degree. But the stoutest piano wire gives a little. Last week Dr. Frederick J. Gaenslen of Milwaukee said that he got dependable cures of broken hips by nailing...
...Thigh Brace. Ordinarily two months in bed are necessary before a broken thigh is strong enough to walk on. Dr. Roger Anderson of Seattle gets the patient out of bed in two days by drilling one hole in the femur just above the break and a second just below the break. He puts long steel pins through the holes and flesh and attaches steel braces to the pins. The braces prevent the leg from shortening, permit the patient to walk on crutches...
Hips at Birth. Usually it is difficult to know whether a baby's hip is out of joint. One way to tell is to study the folds in the skin of the thighs. If one thigh is creased more on the inner side than the other, the creased side is dislocated. If both thighs are deeply creased, both hips are probably dislocated. Another method is to put the baby flat on its back and bend its legs at the hips and knees so that its feet are flat on the table or bed. If one hip has been...
...segments of backbone one at a time. Finally the fishermen took pity, pitched in, and within a week the bones were rescued and stacked up. But on checking over their chart the museum men discovered that two extremely important bones were missing: the thin little pelvic bones with vestigial thigh bones which show that 60 or 70 million years ago whales had serviceable legs. Andrews and Clark sprinted to the try works where the blubber had already been plumped into a cauldron, fished around until the two little bones were retrieved...