Word: catgut
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...behind it, sometimes a third along the hair line at the temples. With a blunt instrument Dr. Shorell peels the skin from the underlying muscles, as though he were paring a peach. In the muscles, loose from age like worn-out elastic bands, he takes a tuck with absorbable catgut. No tissue is cut away. Then Dr. Shorell redrapes the skin over the tightened muscles, snips away the loose skin around the borders in much the way a cook trims...
...nerves of every living thing in Anatolia vibrated like taut catgut to the first, subaudible, microseismic music of an impending earthquake. The slow vibration became a horrible hum, and grew, like the sound of approaching bombers. Then the shock...