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.
Similar to the rest of Long Island and the New York area, Queens was originally inhabited by Native American peoples, and later by Dutch and English settlers. Queens became a borough of New York city in 1897, and in 1899 the eastern 298 square miles of Queens became the western portion of Nassau County. In the three year period between 1905 and 1908, the Queens portion of the Long Island Rail Road was electrified.