Word: patching
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...Methodist Hospital. Operating on a 42-year-old truck driver named Heriberto Hernandez, Garrett had expected to ream out a short stretch of clogged coronary artery and stitch over it a split piece of vein removed from the patient's own leg-what surgeons call a patch graft. Two main arteries proved to be so diseased that this procedure was not feasible. Garrett, who is now at the University of Tennessee's Medical Unit in Memphis, boldly decided to use a longer piece of vein, also from Hernandez's leg. He ran it from healthy tissue...
...never learned how to breathe properly; so we are subjected constantly to his whiffling, snuffling, and gasping. Here he falls into empty ranting, there he delivers a serious line so that it elicits a laugh. One wishes too that he didn't address his servant twice as "patch," when Shakespeare wrote "whey-face" the second time. Wonderful word, "whey-face...
...just as effective. He first applies trichloroacetic acid to the edges of the perforation to irritate them, thus beginning the healing process. Then through the perforation, he blows antibiotic powders into the ear canal behind the eardrum to prevent infection. Finally, he presses a thin antiseptic-soaked gauze patch against the eardrum and sends the patient home with instructions to put antiseptic drops into his ear twice daily. The cotton patch, which is replaced at two-week intervals, prevents the formation of a scab over the hole in the membrane, but allows new tissue to grow...
...course of her mission. When she finally does deliver the ransom, she collapses hysterically in her now aged lover's arms only to find that he has duped her. The ransom was but a profiteering hoax, and he leaves her stranded on the African shore, her mad efforts to patch together a dream of her youth rendered futile...
...carnival caste system are the owner and such administrators as the lot man (who arrives first in each town to lay out the midway); the patch, who handles complaints from outsiders; and the ride superintendent, whom Truzzi and Easto describe as "a kind of grand mechanic." All of these aristocrats outrank the owners of rides, shows and concessions-second-string entrepreneurs who either sign up with the carnival owner for a season or "hopscotch" from one carnival to another...