Word: x-rays
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Nearly 200 Ibs. heavier than Lunokhod 1, which it closely resembles, the remarkable machine is apparently equipped with sophisticated gear to analyze the soil that it picks up. In addition, the robot carries a cosmic-ray counter, a "telescope" that can look for distant X-ray sources in the heavens and a French-built laser reflector, which -like similar reflectors left behind by Apollo-should enable scientists to measure the distance between earth and moon with extreme accuracy...
...Doctors have always had trouble detecting hairline bone fractures; the fine cracks, most commonly found in the hip and hand, often fail to show up in X-ray pictures. Now the University of Wisconsin's Space Science and Engineering Center has taken the process used to improve the quality of television pictures from the moon and applied it to X-ray photography. The researchers place a conventional X-ray picture in a facsimile transceiver similar to the machine used to transmit wirephotos; there it is "read" by a photoelectric cell and the information fed into a computer programmed...
...talking to a visitor. Finally Dr. Faciano walked into the treatment room and abruptly asked what my problem was. Without familiarizing himself with my case history which was on his desk (I had the same tooth worked on last year at the clinic) or bothering to take a new X-ray, he said he would extract my tooth. Within ten minutes he had removed the crown of the tooth but could not extract the roots because he did not have the necessary equipment or the needed novacaine. My tooth was at this point bleeding profusely and I was told...
...sent to Dr. Toomey's office on Mt. Auburn Street. There, after a short wait, an X-ray was taken, the needed novacaine administered and the tooth completely extracted...
There are also medical ruses. An X-ray film showing someone else's debilitating growth of tuberculosis often does the trick. The only catch is that a medical examination is required for three years in a row before a permanent medical exemption is granted-all of which can cost up to 500,000 piasters ($1,200). For a time it was not uncommon for boys to chop off the first two fingers of their gun hand; that practice ended when the military decided to conscript the fingerless youths for porters. Today, some desperate draftees dig a shallow hole, toss...