Word: thorax
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...wonderful medical-art show on view last week in Baltimore's Enoch Pratt Free Library. Its 162 meticulous, gruesome pictures represented the work of about half of the nation's 50 professional medical artists. There was a portrait of an 89-pound tumor shortly after removal, a thorax without any viscera, a woman being skin-grafted after removal of her breast...
...wrote: "Formerly I regarded the breathing thorax as a concertina bellows; my present work suggests that it resembles rather a cylinder and piston." But this reverse action of the lungs, he contends, is often missing in actual cases of injury or drowning. Reason: a patient's diaphragm is relaxed, flaccid. So Dr. Eve tried something else...
...amazing speed in operating attained through practice, great anatomical knowledge and never-ending study. There is no Erdmann operation-the doctor never concentrated exclusively on any one area. He would as soon cut off a leg as go after an appendix, is at home in the skull and the thorax. He teaches surgery, but has never been able to teach the Erdmann technique...
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...