Word: irregularity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...electrodes fine, threadlike wires lead to the machine which detects, through scalp and skull, faint electric brain impulses. A connected drum and ink recorder charts patterns. Normal frequency is ten shallow, rippling, regular waves a second. Abnormal brain waves, often running to 25 a second, show up as irregular plateaus, spikes or scallops. Skilled interpreters can read characteristic abnormal wave patterns as indications of approaching epilepsy, can even use them to locate surface brain tumors. Typical epilepsy pattern looks very much like a string of trylons and perispheres...
Porter has been running the half mile up to now, but has no Varsity experience. His cross country running was rather intermittent and irregular last year but Jaakko says he's doing fairly well, and that's all he's said for any of the follows...
First undergraduate prize of $500 was won by Walter J. Bate '39 of Richmond, Indiana for a work called "Negative Capability: Keats' Conception of the Poetical Character." Henry D. Oyen '41 took a $200 award for his essay "Irregular War" and the $100 third place award went to Archibald B. Roosevelt '40 for "The Smith in Song and Saga...
Brain-waves are the best indication of the exact time at which a patient starts to have the fit. During a fit they are large and regular, while normally they are small and irregular...
...Suspicious signs of cancer: all lumps in the body; any irregular or abnormal discharge of fluid or blood from any body opening; any sore which does not heal in two weeks; small tender spots on the lips and tongue of smokers; loss of appetite and indigestion; persistent hoarseness not caused by a cold; moles, warts and wens. Every person has an average of 27 small blemishes on his body, says Dr. Little. At middle age these "small centers of overgrowth of tissue" may start to grow again and become tender. Prompt treatment prevents them from becoming cancerous...