Word: tumorous
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...years. By the end of childhood the sutures close. But when a stunted child is being treated for deprivation dwarfism-and grows rapidly as a result-the sutures tend to widen instead. Usually, this is an ominous sign of rising fluid pressure within the skull, perhaps from a brain tumor...
...skilled farm labor needed for the simplified job would earn only about $2.50 per hour, sharply reducing costs to the wool industry. Taking up the project at Terrill's suggestion, Agriculture Biologist Ethel Dolnick and Physiologist Ivan Lindahl began feeding varying amounts of a nitrogen-mustard anti-tumor drug to experimental sheep...
While in prison he had undergone a rough-and-ready operation for cancer. The disease now became acute again. Near death, he made his way to a hospital in Tashkent, where the tumor was arrested. The experience gave rise to Cancer Ward, a weaker book than his others. Yet the book rises toward the end to Solzhenitsyn's most direct statement of the complicity of everyone in the guilt of the past: "It's shameful, why do we take it calmly until we ourselves or those who are close to us are stricken? ... If no one is allowed for decade...
...three weeks, the radon's radioactivity is virtually gone. The harmless seeds are left in place, but a few of them may be sloughed off by the body. At Manhattan's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, a nurse saved the seeds sloughed off by the tumor and had the salvaged gold made into a ring for her boy friend. He developed red patches on his finger. Memorial's physicists found that the ring was radioactive and locked it up in a lead box where, 16 years later, it remains...
...hand that Rachel shakes off. A visitor (James Olson) "looking for a little action" finds some in Rachel, but he vanishes before she realizes that she has been had. Even her body thwarts her: a swelling in her stomach turns out to be not a pregnancy but a noncancerous tumor. It is the only benign thing that has ever happened...