Word: implanted
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...parts, which take from one to five hours to implant, do not of themselves restore the patient's hearing. Instead, they serve as a scaffolding over which the patient's own ear-canal skin grows to form new ear tissue. The operation does, however, substantially reduce hearing loss. Most eardrum-damaged patients have moderately severe impediments. In most cases, the implants have improved their hearing to within the normal range...
Last week a Frenchwoman was up and doing well with just such a radioactive source in her chest. In an operation at Hopital Broussais in Paris, Drs. Paul Laurens and Armand Piwnica had successfully performed the first human implant of an atomic pacemaker in Suzanne Peragin, 58. If all goes well, the device should sustain her without further operations for the rest of her life, giving her heart a boost to 65 beats per minute whenever it begins to falter...
Beyond that, Stram the innovator simply enjoys switching things around to satisfy his restless energy. To implant his constantly changing tactics, he says: "I like to get at least four or five new players every year. That's the only way to make a team grow." These days, those who disagree are not arguing out loud...