Word: uteruses
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...pregnant, 29-year-old Negro woman, had complained for months of severe pains in her abdomen. One day last week, as she approached full term, the pains got worse. In the osteopathic unit of Los Angeles County General Hospital, doctors X-rayed her, found to their astonishment that the uterus was only slightly enlarged. The baby was not there; it was thrashing about in the abdomen, its head under the liver and the rest of its body lodged against the stomach and intestines...
...Abdominal pregnancy results from a freakish failure of the fertilized egg to pass through a Fallopian tube to the uterus. The placenta attaches itself, like a parasite, to abdominal organs or membranes. The pregnancy is painful because the placenta irritates the tissues and the baby kicks the nerve-rich peritoneum (abdominal lining). When they discover the condition, doctors usually operate at once...
...Surgeon Roland M. Klemme reported a new technique of cutting certain sympathetic nerves in the chest, which stops angina pain without harmful effects; Chicago's Surgeon Jacob P. Greenhill said that a similar operation on abdominal sympathetic nerves often gives permanent relief from pain in cancer of the uterus and other pelvic organs. Also effective: an alcohol injection in the spine...
...radioactive organic compounds are another story. Investigators think that cancers may be vulnerable to certain radioactive amino acids (proteins). They also consider radioactive sex hormones a promising line of attack against the common cancers of the sex organs (breast, uterus, prostate gland). Said Dr. Rhoads: "I am very hopeful that startling discoveries will be made in ... five, ten or 15 years...
Manhattan Obstetrician Raphael Kurzrok believes that a large number of miscarriages are caused by "genital hypoplasia" (malformation plus deficient hormone activity). His analysis: in some women, because of insufficient output of estrogen (a female hormone) during pregnancy, expansion of the uterus fails to keep pace with growth of the fetus. Rupture of the membrane and miscarriage result...