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Coal car   /koʊl kɑr/   Listen
Coal car

noun
1.
Freight car with fixed sides and no roof; for transporting coal.





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... puncture, a cut, and a shot-wound, and three to erosion from suppuration. In the remaining cases the account fails to assign a definite cause. Chylothorax, or chylous ascites, is generally a result of this injury. Krabbel mentions a patient who was run over by an empty coal car, and who died on the fifth day from suffocation due to an effusion into the right pleural cavity. On postmortem examination it was found that the effusion was chyle, the thoracic duct being torn just opposite the 9th dorsal vertebra, which had been transversely fractured. ...
— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine • George M. Gould


Words linked to "Coal car" :   freight car


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