At One Time It Was Thought Impossible to Operate Within

question 26

Multiple Choice

At one time it was thought impossible to operate within the body cavities. But then the Canadian doctor William Beaumont operated on a gunshot wound to the stomach. A few decades later we saw breakthroughs in heart operations and transplants. And the 1990s were called the decade of the brain because of the extensive research being done on how the brain functions. The order in which these discoveries were made, by cavity, are

• A) abdominal-thoracic-dorsal.
• B) abdominal-dorsal-thoracic.
• C) dorsal-thoracic-abdominal.
• D) thoracic-abdominal-dorsal.
• E) thoracic-dorsal-abdominal.

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