Word: trachea
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...enabling experts to lift fingerprints from difficult surfaces like cloth and even the human body. Kansas City's Howell believes that the coming years will see a great increase in the use of weapon marks. In one stabbing murder, researchers compared a section of the victim's trachea with cuts made in a bar of soap by the suspect's knife. Under a microscope, the marks matched, and the defendant pleaded guilty...
...patient was Mary Gohlke, 45, a newspaper executive from Mesa, Ariz. She had been suffering from pulmonary hypertension, a condition in which high blood pressure in the vessels of the lungs impairs breathing and eventually damages the heart. Dr. Bruce Reitz and his Stanford team severed the aorta and trachea and cut through the heart's right atrium to remove the heart and lungs. "The whole thing comes out as a package," explains Reitz. Then they replaced it with healthy organs from a 15-year-old boy killed in a car accident...