Word: optical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most of Madden's own right eye was left in place, with its muscles, blood vessels and the all-important optic nerve, intact. What was transplanted was the cornea, with the iris and lens-roughly, the front third of the eyeball. Since the donor eye had been refrigerated and deprived of its blood supply before transplantation, there was little or no chance that it would give Madden any useful vision...
...Optic Nerve. After his graduation, the Updikes took a year just for fun at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art at Oxford, and in time he landed a staff job on The New Yorker. "He thought he'd be only a humorist," Mary remembers. "He didn't think of himself as a serious writer." Yet he spent words profligately in an attempt to translate his painter's eye into language, to catch and fix the thing seen and bring all the colors and shapes and textures of the visible world to bear on his narrative...
...words are put together. I read selfishly. I want to see either a new insight or some kind of confirmation of what you already know. If I'm not sure, I look at a writer's eyes. They tell me a great deal." Without the need for optic examination, she took on California Writer Robert Stone, whose excellent first novel, A Hall of Mirrors, was published last year. Agent Donadio had to pry every page of the jumbled manuscript out of Stone, and since the pages were not numbered, she had to spread them out on her living...
...some for only a few weeks. Dr. Monroe Cole of Wake Forest College has reported five similar cases within one year. The nature of nearly all these strokes was confirmed by X rays. Also subject to physical proof are cases of damage to retinal arteries and inflammation of the optic nerves. Not precisely measurable are the more numerous cases in which women complain that they have developed migraine headaches since starting on the pills, or that previously rare attacks have become more frequent and severe. But enough such instances have been reported to convince physicians that there is a cause...
...instrument is inserted into the blood vessels through the neck or leg. Light inside the heart and vessels is provided from a high intensity mercury are lamp and carried on down a second fiber optic system to the lenses...