Word: uteruses
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...relay the information either through sounds or through vibrations. A comparable device will let the deaf "hear." Artificial arms and legs could be motorized and computerized, perhaps linked to the brain, so that the wearer will find his impulse translated into action. Medical men foresee fetuses grown outside the uterus (in case women want to be spared the burdens of pregnancy) and human tissues grown to specifications. The Cleveland Clinic's Dr. Willem J. Kolff prophesies "artificial skin with all the appendages built in, such as ears and nose." How they would look is a cosmetic problem that...
...UTERUS. In many cases of excessive bleeding from the endometrium (lining of the uterus) caused by tumors, application of ultracold through a larger cannula for two to ten minutes will usually destroy the tumors and thus make a hysterectomy unnecessary, reports Dr. Cahan. He also suggests using cryosurgery instead of "tying off the tubes" to sterilize women who, for medical reasons, must have no more children. The procedure takes two minutes...
...still too little and too late in too many cases. What the fetus may need, he reasoned, is a massive, virtually total exchange transfusion. But how to give it? In one case, Dr. Adamsons boldly cut through the mother's abdominal wall and enough of the uterus to expose the fetus' abdomen and one leg. He cut into the fetus' groin and put a plastic catheter in the femoral artery. Through this tube he withdrew much of the baby's blood and replaced it with donor blood. Astonishingly, this radical surgery did not kill the fetus...
...Adamsons has since tried another approach. He has cut into the uterus and into the fetus' peritoneal cavity, and there he has implanted an extremely fine catheter that can be left in place. All six fetuses operated on in this way continued to develop for a month or more; Dr. Adamsons and his colleagues are confident that eventually a way will be found to help the mothers carry them until they can survive normally...
...Castration in men consists of removing the testicles, in women of removing the ovaries. In both it is a beneficial and desirable procedure to slow the ravages of cancer of the prostate, breast or uterus if the growths are of a type that is stimulated by sex hormones...