Word: basal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alvarez gave the doctors some unconventional advice: "Often what you find in a patient has nothing to do with the case." In trying to explain why a patient has "that old tired feelin','' he said, the doctor might turn up some soft gallstones, a slightly low basal metabolism rate or a few intestinal parasites. But the doctor should remember that things like that cannot cause the great fatigue the patient complains about. The commonest cause of abnormal weariness, he said, is a "nervous breakdown," a term that may include neurosis or psychosis. A lot of operations could...
From his neat, gold-rimmed spectacles, reassuring pipe, and dignified classroom smile, Eugene DuBois is easily spotted as a professor. It is harder to guess that he is an outstanding physiologist whose researches made possible medicine's standard basal metabolism test...
...body in 1911, when medicine was just waking up to the interrelation between physiological processes and disease. He and famed Physiologist Graham Lusk were the first in the U.S. to use the calorimeter (a device that measures the output of body heat) on human subjects. The modern basal metabolism test, which measures the rate of body processes by measuring oxygen consumption, is a lineal descendant of the DuBois calorimeter...
Running to a car parked nearby, the painters found a note signed by August De Mont, 37, an ailing shipyard worker. "I and my daughter," it said, "have committed suicide." De Mont had had an appointment with a doctor that morning to take a basal metabolism test. He had not gone. With his five-year-old daughter, who had cried to go along just for the ride, he had driven straight to the bridge...
Getting Used to It. Men can adjust themselves to Antarctic living, but their bodies acquire a new balance, reported Physiologist Ernest E. Lockhart. The repeated stimulus of low temperatures makes blood pressure increase by 25 to 35% and makes the rates of respiration and heart-beat decrease somewhat. Basal metabolism is about 10 to 15% lower than in temperate climates. These reactions were unexpected, for they do not occur among Eskimos...