Word: chesting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...desk. Ten minutes later he heard violent, racking coughs. Pauletta was grasping his throat as if choking. He blurted out, "Call Dr. Banderali," and lost consciousness. The doctor gave him artificial respiration, injected two doses of heart stimulant. An ambulance rushed him to a hospital where his chest was opened, his heart massaged. Nothing helped. Within an hour after the injection, Dr. Pauletta was dead...
Truman refused to be specific about what continued drastic action he would take. A reporter asked if there would be a special committee, like the Roberts-Pomerene Commission which investigated the Teapot Dome scandals. No, said Truman, thumping his chest with a forefinger, if there is going to be anything, it will be his own, a Truman original...
...British Museum in London, Dr. T. C. Skeat studied the X-ray pictures and agreed that "Diana" had probably been murdered, had certainly been misnamed. Skeat retranslated the inked inscription on the mummy's chest wrappings, announced that the boy's name was Panechates, son of Hatres. Undoubtedly of noble birth, the unlucky child may have been liquidated by an ambitious rival. Burial took place some time in the 3rd century...
...pressure on the lower ribs of the back caused the lungs to take up only the same amount of air as a person inhales in normal breathing. Nielsen reasoned that if the victim's lungs could be made to take a deep breath, like a man inflating his chest before an open window, there would be a better chance of expelling water or gases from the lungs. Nielsen developed a method to do just that. The main rules...
...disease, but a combination of three: 1)silicosis, caused by inhaling finely powdered rock dust, 2) cancer, brought on by radiation from the pitchblende, and 3) tuberculosis, as a complication of the first two. At first, the victim feels short of breath.Then he gets acute pains in the chest and back, and begins to cough a lot. Later comes a racking, bloody cough, rapid loss of weight, and a grey, cadaverous look about the face. The victim is doomed, though he may suffer on for months or years...