Word: atria
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...entire heart. This meant severing and later rejoining not only the two great arteries, but also two great veins returning spent blood to the heart and four veins returning oxygenated blood from the lungs. By leaving in place parts of the walls of the upper heart chambers (auricles or atria) to which these six veins return, Dr. Shumway eliminated an enormous amount of delicate suturing in sensitive areas, and cut the operating time virtually in half...
...miles from the heart of the city and brightening them with come-ons-Olympic-size swimming pools, tennis courts and teen-age "centers." Builders are offering various forms of walled-in courtyards, patios or other places for private outdoor entertainment or relaxation. In Boston, houses with atria-R oman-style enclosed courtyards-will go on sale next spring...
Jungles and an Aviary. Individual architects such as Edward D. Stone and Philip C. Johnson have designed custom-built atrium houses for private clients in years past. But only lately have mass builders begun to adopt the style. Pacesetter Homes set 169 atria on a tract in San Clemente, Calif., and Builder William J. Levitt-of the Levittown Levitts -includes a version of the house in his 1,450-unit development currently abuilding near Cape Kennedy, Fla. Greatest enthusiast is California's Joseph L. Eichler, who has built some 3,000 houses in 31 development tracts in the last...
Music for the continuos dancing will be supplied by Georgie Auld and Rudy Wallace. Auld, former lead saxophone player with Atria Shaw and Benny Good man, was at the Kirkland House Formal last night, while Wallace played at the Lowell House Winter Dance...
Anatomists and physicians have known a good deal of all this since 1628, when William Harvey published his De Motu Cordis. But enough remained unknown to cause Dr. Miller 47 years of research. It was he who discovered the lungs' atria. He proved that the significant unit of lung architecture is the lobule. He systematized the whole lung anatomy, rationalized its physiology. He anatomized the tubercle of Ghon, the spot in the lung from which certain cases of pulmonary tuberculosis develop in children. He guided a former assistant, Professor Olof Larsell of the University of Oregon, in mapping...