Word: vitreous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with which he has pursued his essential lan guage as a painter - how the zigzagging pipes under the basin in Corner of Studio - Sink, 1963, relate to the angular chops of dark shadow in his earlier Berkeley landscapes, and are exquisitely refined in the later Ocean Parks; how the vitreous transparencies of his Californian rooms in the late '50s, gridded by mul lions and tabletops, become the sharp glazed intercuts of Ocean Park...
...reports of a dire shortage of toilets. Hospitals, homes, schools and office buildings, habitable in all other respects, still stand idle because their bathrooms have not been completed. One of the reasons for the shortage is a recent ten-week strike that shut down the major manufacturers of vitreous china, the substance used in the construction of toilets. But another problem is the soaring demand for bathrooms. While there were 35 home toilets per 100 Americans in 1960, the number increased to 42 in 1970 and continues to rise. In the meantime, where are Americans to seek inspiration? Cathedrals, perhaps...
...implant the replacement often causes infection or deterioration of the jawbone. A promising new technique developed by the University of Southern California school of dentistry and the Vitredent Corp. of Los Angeles seems likely to overcome both problems. The empty socket is filled with a root replacement of vitreous carbon; then the false tooth is fastened to this foundation. Carbon, the base of all living matter, is compatible with human tissue and causes no rejection, nor does it break down under the pressures of chewing. U.S.C...
...vitreous humor, the substance that fills two-thirds of the eyeball, is vital to vision. The clear, jelly-like material transmits light while maintaining the pressure that helps hold the retina in place. Hemorrhaging, which occurs often in severe diabetes, can cloud the vitreous and impair vision, and loss of its gel-like consistency can result in detachment of the retina. Both conditions can produce blindness...
Doctors now replace lost or damaged vitreous with either natural material taken from donors, saline solutions, air, silicone or other synthetics. None of those materials is completely satisfactory. The synthetics sometimes trigger toxic reactions that lead to further eye damage, the air is soon absorbed, and transplanted human vitreous may provide only short-term benefits. Now a research team at Cornell University Medical College's Rogosin Laboratories has developed a material that overcomes all these problems. According to Dr. Michael W. Dunn, he and his colleagues are using collagen, a natural body substance, to replace lost or damaged vitreous...