Word: woodscrew
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...with the instrument that he used (it had a rigid steel shank), so he soon designed another. The result is a piece of piano wire with a loop handle at one end, a tiny ball at the other, and 1½ in. from the tip, a thicker section with woodscrew thread. Bailey has used this to ream the diseased plaques out of the coronaries of three more patients, all of whom seem considerably improved...
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