Word: venous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pressure suit, says the Air Force, is nothing like those brief, becoming space suits worn in the comics. It will keep a man alive in a virtual vacuum for about ten minutes, but he breathes with difficulty. His hands, not fully pressurized, swell up with blue venous blood. His throat is another trouble spot: the medicos have not learned how to pressurize a throat without strangling its owner...
...plain that the fluoride men were speaking to rising opposition. Seattle audiences had all too obviously been moved by the questionable science of pamphlets that named fluorides as the cause of "arterial and venous hardening . . . cavities in head bones; premature age . . . changes of disposition; irritability, apprehension, discontent, undue financial anxiety; loss of memory, satyriasis, nymphomania...