Word: thorax
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mortality from brain wounds in the last war was 35% in Russia; now it is about 5%. According to Deputy Health Commissar S. Milovidov, deaths from stomach wounds have dropped 33%, from head, jaw and thorax wounds 50%, from spinal column injuries...
...thorax is first filled with air by a deep inspiration; the glottis is then closed. . . . When a sufficiently high intrapulmonic pressure is attained, the glottis opens and the sudden change in pressure causes a forcible expulsion...