Word: vascularized
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...President Sherman Adams, Deputy Assistant to the President Major General Wilton ("Jerry") Persons. The diagnosis: Eisenhower had suffered an occlusion of a small branch of the middle cerebral (brain) artery on the left side; the occlusion, or blockage, might have been caused either by a small clot or a vascular spasm (see MEDICINE). In short, though the White House would not use the word, the President had suffered a stroke...
Other clinical descriptions in Dickens' novels are varied and comprehensive enough to make a case book: the post-concussional state of Eugene Wrayburn in Our Mutual Friend, the fatal cerebral vascular disease of Mr. Dorrit in Little Dorrit, the chronic hypomania of the stranger who made advances to Mrs. Nickleby over the garden wall in Nicholas Nickleby. In at least one instance Dickens got the jump on the medical profession: the first recorded instance of the association of narcolepsy (uncontrollable desire to sleep) with obesity occurs in the fat boy of Pickwick Papers...
...Church steps. To frustrated souls reading Kinsey in the stacks, to writers whose books have not been reviewed, to students late for lectures, and lecturers who know no applause, a day of relaxation from care. High feasting, too, to the students of Comparative Morphology and the Geologic History of Vascular Plants. To the wives of the Masters and the masters of the wives, to examiners who give failures, and to the long hairs boycotting the barbers, a very good day indeed. We remember at this juncture the Lamont girls looking for contraband, professors who speak at dinner for 53 minutes...
...Without coordination we have cardiologists, angiologists, cardiac surgeons, peripheral vascular men and, of late, the more glorious nephrologists . . . Unfortunately there seems to be no term to cover the entire circulation. But in our own thinking, let us make a fresh start and consider the heart as only a 'specialized nubbin' on the whole vascular tree and reintegrate the heart and blood vessels back into the unified system that it really...
...Sinclair has included my husband, W. E. Woodward, in his dazzling list of writers who traveled "to their graves by the alcoholic highway [March 28]." My husband . . . was one week short of 76 years of age when he died, and the death certificate gives as the cause arteriosclerosis, cardio-vascular disease, in other words, old age. To that I would add overwork. Upton Sinclair's family history is so tragic that it is natural for him to think that anyone who takes a drink is an alcoholic. And while we are about it, neither Dreiser nor Sherwood Anderson drank...