Word: ulcerous
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...transfusions for minor injuries. But when he had a tooth pulled early last month, intensive bleeding (20 to 25 pints a day) set in. At Duke University Hospital in Durham, doctors put him on the critical list, called for blood donors. As Willie grew weaker, an old gastric ulcer opened up, added to the blood loss. Clotting drugs (e.g., thrombin and Gelfoam) and antihemophilic globulin flown in from the Health Department in Lansing, Mich. failed to halt the drain. Moreover, antibodies built up from previous transfusions neutralized the clotting qualities of the newly transfused blood. Last week, after 442 hours...
...detail and, as often happens in a soundly built play, all the actors turned in superlative jobs. Top honors went to chunky Ed Begley, one of TV's most valuable utility actors, who brought to his role of a businessman hagridden both by his boss and his ulcer a fine pitch of stubborn and despairing dignity...
Stretched out on his plain brass bed, retching in pain, the Pope seemed first to be suffering an appendicitis attack; then, as evidence of intestinal hemorrhage appeared, the doctors feared a perforated ulcer. X rays were ordered. The sacrament of Extreme Unction was administered. Gradually the pain began to subside...
...Executive Suite, with the big job depending this time as much on the wife as on the man. The waspish corporation boss (Clifton Webb) summons his three top district managers; the best man & wife team will get the vacant general managership. The three nervous couples show up: an ulcer-ridden, self-made man (Fred MacMurray), at odds with his wife (Lauren Bacall); a tough, reticent Texan (Van Heflin) and his full-bodied, social-climbing mate (Arlene Dahl); a family man from Kansas City (Cornel Wilde) and his too-enthusiastic wife (June Allyson...
...some, it is a soothing therapy for the peptic ulcer; to others, especially those who make their living at it, it is a good way to acquire...