Word: vena
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...powered miniature pump zippered into another vest pocket propels the solution through a tube implanted in Jason's skin midway between his rib cage and navel. The tube runs up his chest to the base of his neck, where it threads into a vein leading to the superior vena cava, the large vessel that finally returns blood from the head and neck to the heart...
Some medical experts wondered why the surgeons did not tie off the large vein known as the inferior vena cava. That step could block the passage of clots that might form later on higher in the left iliac vein or in Nixon's right leg or in tributary veins from the left leg. It is not known how extensively during surgery the doctors examined the inferior vena cava for possible clots...
...estate in Palm Springs early in September. At some point, Nixon's physicians say, a part of that clot, or possibly a new one, broke loose. The embolus was carried away in the bloodstream, like debris in a fast-flowing river, through the iliac vein and the inferior vena cava into the heart (see diagram...
...writers mentioned tackle Ed Vena, linebacker Mark Ferguson, and defensive back Mike Murr on defense...
DEFENSIVE No.Name Position 83 Fred Smith LE 69 Milte O'Hare LT 55 Ed Vena RT 78 Milte McHugh RE 50 Mark Ferguson RE 54 Sandy Tennant MG 60 Bob Kristoff LB 10 Bert Broyer R 43 Milte Murr HB 23 Dave St. Pierre HB 20 Barry Malinowiski...