Word: transplanter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will use on the moon, and an esoteric airtight container that will extract water from moon rock by heating it to 300° C. Sometimes the producers are lucky enough to be on hand for a rare event, as in a soon-to-be-shown film of a kidney transplant at Cleveland Clinic...
CACTUS FLOWER is a Gallic sex farce that not only survived the transplant from Paris, but, as deftly tended by Abe Burrows, has thrived as a long-blooming Broadway...
...that a pregnant woman somehow suppresses some of her rejection mechanism so that she can carry the partially foreign fetus. If so, there is a good chance that she may be less likely to reject other intruders. Perhaps pregnancy, along with its problems, offers a small advantage to kidney-transplant patients...
...piece of a melanoma (a highly malignant cancer) was transplanted from a desperately ill young woman to her mother "in the hope of gaining a little better understanding of cancer immunity, and in the hope that the mother's production of tumor antibodies might be helpful in the treatment of the cancer patient." The patient died the day after the transplant, the mother died of melanoma 15 months later...
Faced with a person who has lost a finger in an accident, most surgeons do little more than sew up the stump -though in some cases they may transplant one of the patient's own fingers, especially to replace a thumb. Russia's Dr. Viktor Kalnberz goes much further...