Word: vein
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...constituents, the Georgian voted yes for the SST. Republican John Thomas Myers of Indiana was an easy switch. "He wants to go to the air show in Paris," a party leader said, meaning that the House leadership could prevent Myers from making the junket. Arends worked a different vein. "Nixon wants this," he repeated to his colleagues. "It's a grand thing to do in the long run." Later he confessed: "Sure, we squeezed-the best...
...there is a deep sardonicism in his personality, a self-deprecating sense of humor which he would sometimes use to disarm his colleagues and at other times to make straightforward remarks which he would never have dared utter in a serious vein. "My problem," he once said to a Faculty coleague with a trace of a grin, "is that I was born arrogant"; the remark of a man who either thought himself above reproach or was perhaps entirely too blind about the roots of his own scornfulness...
...method of using pressurized carbon dioxide gas to separate the inner and outer walls of an artery so that the fat adhering to the arterial lining could be more easily removed. Others experimented with widening clogged arteries by inserting gussets made from pieces of the patient's saphenous vein...
...procedure developed at the Cleveland Clinic by Dr. René Favaloro, now 48, an Argentine-born surgeon who joined Effler in 1962 to study coronary-artery disease. In an operation first performed four years ago next week, he removed a section of his patient's saphenous vein, attached one end to the blocked right coronary artery at a point below the obstruction, stitched the other to a spot on the aorta above the blockage. The procedure allowed blood to bypass the blockage and greatly improved the heart's blood supply...
Once the heart has been stopped, Effler calls for the saphenous vein, measures it and cuts off the required length. Then he sews it into place, first below and then above the obstruction. With the first graft in place, Effler repeats the procedure on the right coronary artery and checks to make sure that there is no leakage. This done, he disconnects the patient from the heart-lung machine, restarts the heart with a second electric shock and slips out of the operating room for a breather while an assistant cuts away the mammary artery. A few minutes later, Effler...