Word: tumorous
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...related to cancer. Doctors feel that the betatron has shown remarkable promise in brain cancer; of six cases treated, only one has died. More apparent is the effect of the betatron's massive doses of high-voltage X rays on a less common malignancy called Pancoast's tumor. This type of cancer eats away the ribs and causes agonizing pain. Both the patients treated got quick relief from pain and they are now back at work. Their affected ribs have grown back...
...describes as "a sort of self-mockery. I chose a town built on a hill so that in the sketch there emerged a powerful plastic suggestion by the perspective view of the blocks of houses. [Then I punched] the back of the paper. Now you can see the protruding tumor, and you see that these houses and sun were nonsense. But I, poor fool, what did I do? This wild effort to depict in appearance the reality seems also to have been illusion, for . . . the paper is as flat and smooth as before, and I succeeded only in the suggestion...
Died. General Kuniaki Koiso, 70, one of the fanatic militarists who led the Japanese Empire into war and destruction; of a chest tumor; in Tokyo, where he was serving time on a life sentence for war crimes. Wizened, jovial Warmonger Koiso commanded Japan's famed Kwantung army in Manchuria, earned the title "The Tiger" because of his cat's eyes and ruthless behavior as governor general of Japanese-occupied Korea...
...surgical operations are older than those performed for cataract of the eye. As early as about 2000 B.C., the Code of Hammurabi ordained: "If a physician . . . open a tumor of the eye with a bronze lancet and save [the patient's] sight, he shall have ten shekels of silver ... If a physician open an abscess of the eye with a bronze lancet and the patient lose his eye, the physician shall have his fingers cut off." In his monumental monograph, Surgery of Cataract (Lippincott; $30), New York Ophthalmologist Daniel B. Kirby traces the history of operations for cataract...
Surgeon Gary Grant, vacationing with his wife (Paula Raymond) in a Latin American country on the brink of revolution, suddenly finds himself a prisoner of the ailing dictator (well played by José Ferrer) who is dying of a brain tumor. While Dr. Grant ponders whether to operate, revolutionists urge him to let the scalpel slip, and Ferrer offers some glib justifications of dictatorship...