Word: toning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Wilson's new patient, "Mrs. P.G.," as he later called her, said she was 52 years old, but her body told another story. "Her breasts were supple and firm, her carriage erect; she had good general muscle tone, no dryness of the mucous membranes and no visible genital atrophy. Above all," Wilson noted, "her skin was smooth and pliant as a girl's." When asked about menopause, she laughed and replied, "I assure you, Dr. Wilson, I have never yet missed a period. I'm so regular, astronomers could use me for timing the moon...
...found in some 300 different tissues, from brain to bone to liver. This means that in one way or another, all these tissues respond to the presence of estrogen. Some, including tissues in the urinogenital tract, the blood vessels, the skin and the breasts, require estrogen to maintain their tone and flexibility...
More alarming is the gushing bleeding some of the women have experienced, the result, in many cases, of missed hormonal signals and a loss of uterine muscle tone. "Sometimes when I'm at the office and I stand up, the blood is dripping down my leg," said Marian, 45. "What the hell is going on? Am I hemorrhaging?" And a few women complained about bladder-control problems. Joked Marian: "Don't tell me I'm going to replace tampons with Depends...
...team, most of us work very hard," Friedman said. "Our coach [Jay Weiss] set the tone right from the beginning...
...perhaps the one play that set the tone for the season occurred the following weekend at the Harvard Invitational. The Crimson was facing Cornell, a team that had given it trouble the past few seasons. Senior co-captain Beth Morgan drilled a shot into the net from 40 yards out to give Harvard a 1-0 lead en route...