Aortas

A story with a lawnmower: I was explaining this very concept (actually “comparative advantage,” roughly the same) to some students – I said a surgeon shouldn’t mow his lawn because someone else can mow his lawn for $10/hour while he can fix aortas for $7000/hour or whatever the going rate for fixed aortas is these days. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The FDA didn ' t inspect or audit the plant where the devices were made before they were placed in the aortas of more than 175 study participants, according to information from Aptus and from presentations at medical conferences. ❋ Thomas M. Burton (2010)

Additional experiments on rat aortas and rat endothelial cells ❋ Unknown (2007)

The drug was intended to prevent aortas from dilating, but an Italian group had discovered that it might strengthen skeletal muscle, too. ❋ Unknown (2009)

There are two ventral aortas, one on each side, with segmental aortic arches, one for each ‘gill’ on each side, connecting to paired dorsal aortas. ❋ RICHARD DAWKINS (2009)

These generally involve images of doctors squeezing ricotta-like tar from the aortas of dead smokers, or of carcinomas, or my personal favorite, the one of the woman who lost most of her fingers to cigarettes. ❋ BikeSnobNYC (2009)

Marfan patients grow up to be unusually tall and long-limbed, with dangerously enlarged aortas. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Researchers at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto infected a dozen rabbits through the nose and found that two developed lesions in their aortas within two weeks. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Here is the clavicle-snapped wish, the aortas opened valves, the leap thought makes at the synaptic gap. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Instead, the aortas were completely full of these melamine-type crystal. ❋ Unknown (2007)

So special that when the spear of about a half dozen tiny little hearts, with aortas and arteries still attached to them, arrived at the table, I let them sit on the plate while I excused myself with a chicken wing. ❋ Unknown (2006)

So that in the dissection of the embryo, as it were, two aortas, or two roots of the great artery, appear springing from the heart. ❋ Unknown (2005)

There the blood beats: the prime minister's hands strangle aortas and mouths. ❋ Pasternak, Boris (1992)

Certain animals on which circular sutures of the thoracic or abdominal aortas or of the carotid artery had been performed, and which we had retained in health two, three, and even four years afterwards, showed the same results. ❋ Unknown (1967)

The aorta is an [elastic] [artery] ❋ Mr Robbo (2010)

"[Aorta] [cut the grass] down by the [ballpark] so the kids dont get hurt." ❋ Dooodeeedooodeeedoooo (2003)

"aorta [cut down] the [grass] on that [lawn]." ❋ Ema Nymton (2003)

aorta cut that [grass] down by the ballfield so [them kids] don't [get hurt] ❋ James Snyder (2005)