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Word: tumor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...still be done before anyone can be sure whether or not penicillin can fight cancers growing in animals or people. Dr. Francis Carter Wood, retired head of the cancer research at Columbia University, added the warning that Cornman's experiment applies only to a special type of mouse tumor, may not apply to any other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Answer to Cancer? | 4/3/1944 | See Source »

...parasite was actually Ernie's imperfect twin, the result of incomplete division of embryonic cells before Ernie was born. Imperfect twinning sometimes results in scarcely noticeable effects (a baby may be born with a small tumor containing teeth, hair, etc., showing that a twin was begun but not completed), or in Siamese twins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Double Boy | 2/21/1944 | See Source »

Senator Charles L McNary, 69-year-old minority leader, recovering nicely from an operation for a brain tumor, was set to leave the Bethesda, Md. Naval Hospital this week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Dec. 6, 1943 | 12/6/1943 | See Source »

...delivered only two babies. One was born to a woman who was rushing from Turkey to North Carolina, and suddenly had her child in ten minutes in a hotel bed. And there was a maid at the hotel who told the other help she was suffering from a tumor. The tumor turned out to be a bouncing baby which Dr. Ellsworth delivered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hotel Doctor | 10/18/1943 | See Source »

...often performed in a patient's house. The surgeon sent nurses ahead to prepare a room, the surgeon brought his instruments in a metal case to be sterilized on the stove, the family doctor gave the anesthetic. Dr. Erdmann once removed a large gallstone and an ovarian tumor from a large, 70-year-old woman in her home by the light of kerosene-burning auto lamps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Not So Long Ago | 12/7/1942 | See Source »

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