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| Anabolic Protoplaser | ||
| Uses laser light to repair wounds. |
| "Take a look, Jim." "Ugly," Kirk said, looking at the black silhouette of the barbed spear point which had torn through the chest muscles and was buried in spongy gray lung tissue. "How are you going to get that thing out?" "Watch. Minilaze, Sara," he ordered. She handed him the tiny cutting tool. He made a clean incision through the tissue that had closed in around the barbs, the beam cauterizing as it cut. Then, grasping hold of the short, splintered stub, he gently pulled the head out. "Sara, anabolic protoplaser, type zero." He applied the tip of the instrument to the interior of the wound, slowly working it outward to repair torn veins and gashed arteries, and unite nerves and muscle fibers. Soon, all that was left was the closing of the jagged tear where the spear had gone in and the small incision below it. "Type two protoplaser." |
| Technovelgy from Spock, Messiah!,
by Theodore Cogswell (w/C. Spano). Published by Not known in 1976 Additional resources -
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