Word: liverence
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...other of life's spices, the computer solemnly accepted the facts that a man must have certain minimum quantities of protein, calcium, iron, phosphorus and five vitamins. Then its nerve cells went to work, concluded that only four foods are needed to sustain life: lard, beef liver, orange juice and soybean meal...
CARTER'S LITTLE PILLS lost "liver" when the U.S. Supreme Court refused to review a lower court decision ordering Carter Products, Inc. to delete the word from name. FTC victory in longest case in its history (16 years, five months, eleven days) established that the pills have no therapeutic effect on the liver, are no more than a laxative. Carter has petitioned for a rehearing...
...been no breakfast last Thursday, and vague reminiscences of the Administration's decree told him that on the weeks Thursday breakfast was omitted, Sunday breakfast was served. That meant, of course, that this was the week of Tuesday's buffet lunch, but at least there wouldn't be liver for Monday's dinner until next week...
...kidneys, and separate bile ducts. But blood was crossing the bridge between the twins. The important question: How much? Injected radioactive iodine 131 gave the answer through a scintillation counter: a forbidding 43%. The big remaining question was whether there were normal and separate blood-vessel connections to the liver. By operation's eve the twins were amazingly healthy, with no indication of heart trouble (therefore, no blueness). They ate voraciously, and poked at each other so vigorously that they had to be fitted with mittens...
...soon clear that the twins' livers were joined. But before this problem could be faced, the surgeons separated the rib cages, found that the hearts were surrounded by a fused sac. They cut it so that Jeanett's heart had a normal sac; Denett's was open until they stitched it shut. Major blood vessels to the liver proved to be separate, but in cutting the bridge dividing the two organs, no fewer than 75 minor vessels had to be cut, and their bleeding stanched. Separated at last, each twin had her own quartet working independently...