Word: auricular
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...curtain-raiser, the Guild offered Menotti's The Telephone (1947), an oft-done two-character farce about a lad on the make for a lass; but, alas, her auricular and ventricular concerns are maddeningly telephonic...
...Auricular fibrillation, when the heart's upper chambers twitch irregularly and contract too rapidly, is frightening to victims: in brief attacks it may cause a "heart in the mouth" feeling and palpitations; over longer periods it can lead to heart failure. It is also difficult to diagnose because early attacks often pass before a doctor can get there. A unique study of 113 men and women of five generations in one family-compiled by Dr. William L. Gould of Albany, N.Y. and reported in the Archives of Internal Medicine-shows that in an occasional case fibrillation neither causes disability...
After World War 1 duty as a bugler, Willard Hargrave worked in Los Angeles as a newsman and pressagent. He studied furiously, read what little he could find about the antisocial effects of deafness, particularly in juvenile delinquency. His National Auricular Foundation, set up in 1938 next door to Los Angeles County's Juvenile Hall, has tested the hearing of 40,000 youngsters. Hargrave holds no medical degree but has turned himself into an expert audiometrist, has lectured on audiology to graduate audiences in several California universities...
...Prinzmetal movie. It was a good medical story. For the first time in history, completely exposed hearts had been photographed in action by high-speed color cameras and the heart action reproduced in slow motion. The pictures indicated that the traditional theory of the heart disease called auricular fibrillation was wrong...
...three weeks, white-thatched Jesse Jones had managed to avoid testifying on some 1941 oil deals. A doctor's affidavit averred that Jones had coronary heart disease, suffered from attacks of "paroxysmal auricular fibrillation," and was in no condition to appear in court. But the plaintiff countered with an affidavit of his own. The night the medical statement was received, he claimed, Jesse had sat up until 2 in the morning playing poker with the boys, and drinking "large quantities of whiskey." The stakes ranged high, and once Jesse "backed a straight in a pot involving . . . $4,000 against...