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...going. There were two small holes in the septum (wall) between the two upper chambers of her heart, allowing partly oxygenated blood to pass through. And the ductus arteriosus, which supplies a normal and necessary connection between aorta and pulmonary artery during a baby's life in the womb, did not close as it should have after Betty's birth. This also helped to make partly oxygenated blood available to her faltering circulation...
Both the Put-On and the Gross-Out are part of the Now Generation's "language bag"-a constantly changing lingo brewed from psychological jargon, show-biz slang and post-Chatterley obscenity. What the 1920s admiringly called a "good-time Charlie" is today Freudianized as a "womb baby," one who cannot kick the infantile desire for instant gratification. Anyone who substitutes perspiration for inspiration is a "wonk"-derived from the British "wonky," meaning out of kilter. The quality an earlier generation labeled cool is "tough," "kicky," "bitchin'," or "groovy." But the most meaningful facet of In-Talk...
...Womb days-Womb days-Dear old tummy tomb days...
...Yeah--back to the womb," comes the answer from up the crawlway. But it's not that at all: it's damp and cold down here, with a million tons of rock balanced over your head. In the long squeeze coming through the Gunbarrel, even an experienced caver sometimes feels a twitch of claustrophobia. Novices may have to be dragged up with a rope...
Last week three researchers at the Albany Medical Center offered a surprisingly accurate answer. And, oddly, that answer was developed as a byproduct of one of the few forms of therapy that can now be started while a baby is still in the womb. When incompatibility of the Rh blood factor between mother and child is serious enough, even a massive transfusion of blood immediately after birth is sometimes too late to save the child. And for such cases doctors have worked out a delicate technique for transfusion in utero. Before they try such major treatment, however, they insert...