Word: wombs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...even if today's doctor knew which sex to expect, and even if he could predict trouble, there would be little for him to do except prepare to interrupt the pregnancy or to provide treatment after birth. Soon, however, prenatal care for fetuses still in the womb may be possible for a host of problems. And if sex is an element in the diagnosis, the doctor will be more curious than ever. But how will he tell...
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...
...imagination has conjured up an oddball universe where time actually runs backward. There, reports Stannard in Nature, a swimmer would rise from the water to land on a diving board, a decaying apple would gradually turn unripe and then into a blossom, all life would proceed from tomb to womb...