Word: veined
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Hemorrhoids are nothing but varicose veins in the anal region. They result from greatly increased pressure in the anal veins during the muscular contractions of defecation, when portions of a vein break through the skin or other tissues that normally confine them. Famed Harvard Surgeon Francis D. Moore (TIME cover, May 3, 1963) notes in the textbook Surgery: "In a sophisticated population, sensitive to their own complaints and careful of personal hygiene, one rarely sees the tremendously advanced hemorrhoids that are common in a more careless social stratum." But a woman is liable to develop hemorrhoids during pregnancy because...
Sometimes, but seldom, a hemorrhoid heals itself through the development of a blood clot, which shuts down the vein. Surgery in moderately severe cases is minor and like a treatment for varicose veins of the leg: a chemical is injected to harden the vein's walls and make it close down. In more severe cases, part of the vein and surrounding tissues must be cut out. Operations used to be dreaded because of infections and slow healing. Now they are safer, thanks to antibiotics, and healing is quicker...
Bits of the catheter, having been cut by the edge of the needle, can break off and get lost in the vein. Writing in the December issue of GP, Dr. Carl Northcutt of Stuttgart, Ark., relates the case of a 61-year-old male patient who was having a catheter inserted. It was noted that a Hinch piece of it had broken off. A tourniquet was quickly applied to head off the lost piece, but it could not be found. Four weeks later the patient went into shock and died, apparently of other causes. But the missing bit of catheter...
...patient who needs a prolonged transfusion or intravenous feeding of any kind normally has no difficulty in getting it. His doctor slips a needle into the vein and threads a thin polyethylene tube (catheter) through the needle into the bloodstream. The needle is then removed, the catheter taped down so that it will not pull out, and the flow of fluid continued as long as required. Occasionally, however, this procedure can have tragic complications...
Five Remedies. Jackie did. The woman who had enchanted Manchester with her "camellia beauty," as he once described it, now showed a broad vein of Carborundum beneath it. Calling newsmen to her Park Avenue office, she did not show up herself, but sent over a statement composed by Ted Sorensen, who wrote her husband's most memorable speeches. The book, it said, "is in part both tasteless and distorted." It was replete with "inaccurate and unfair references to other individuals"-obviously, Johnson-"in contrast with its generous references to all members of the Kennedy family." Most important, to expose...