Abdominal adhesions are bands of tissue that form between abdominal tissues and organs. these vary from a consistency of wet tissue paper, which are of little significance, to a strong, fibrous band that can readily cause obstruction.
On April 19, 1912, those parts of New York County which had been annexed from Westchester County in the past decades were newly constituted as Bronx County, the 62nd and last county to be created by the state, effective in 1914.
Almost fully developed by 1940, Bronxville, a square-mile chunk of the town of Eastchester 15 miles from Midtown Manhattan, looks now much the way it did 75 years ago, with some of its still-grand residences dating to the late 1800s.