Word: ulcerating
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...HAVE A CLOSE friend who was diagnosed a few weeks ago as having arthritis in her knees. This, compounded with her ulcer, her bursitis and her migraine headaches began to make her feel as though she would be nothing but a mass of decaying ectoplasm by the age of 40. I lent her this book, and in the depths of her depression she opened it and immediately began to howl with laughter. The cartoon she first turned to was by Ross: a football player runs towards a touchdown, shouting to the cheering crowd "Hey, fans! I've got a separated...
...withstand surgery, they had him wheeled from his bedroom to the infirmary of his personal guard's barracks, 200 yards from the palace, for an attempt to halt the massive internal hemorrhaging. In a three-hour operation, Dr. Manuel Hidalgo Huerta, an old friend, removed one bleeding ulcer from the wall of Franco's stomach and tied a large gastric artery that carries blood to the stomach wall. Franco was also given two gallons of blood, more than replacing his entire blood volume...
...look because it was a boom town. Today it is shabby because it is dying. For the past two decades, the Anaconda Company's immense Berkeley pit has been slowly nibbling away one section of the hilltop city after another. Now the pit, a gaping, terraced ulcer 7,200 ft. long, a mile wide and 1,500 ft. deep, has begun to eat into the town's business district. By 1985, say some resigned residents, Butte as a city could simply cease to exist...
...good reporter, she did not ask anyone about it is not clear. The tension led to an embarrassingly stubborn case of acne, and Quinn found herself drinking heavily in the afternoon to help her sleep, until a doctor told her to stop because she was developing an ulcer...
...with earlier observations showing that aspirin inhibits the aggregation of platelets-blood components involved in clotting; for this reason, doctors have recommended against its use by women about to deliver babies or others facing major surgery. Large doses of aspirin can cause serious bleeding in the stomach-especially in ulcer victims-and can also damage the kidneys...