Word: abdomen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cancer recurred. Then three years ago, as her remissions grew ominously shorter, Haut enrolled in an experimental trial of monoclonal-antibody therapy at Michigan. Over the course of five weeks, she received four infusions of antibodies loaded with radioactive iodine. The result? The tumors in her groin, chest and abdomen disappeared, and to this day Haut remains cancer-free. In a recently completed study, 19 out of 21 B-cell lymphoma patients treated at Michigan responded with partial to complete remissions...
...abdomen) is the body area that has launched a thousand fitness devices. Each aims to create what bodybuilders call a six-pack, a perfect row of muscles...
...Most women undergoing surgery for early stage OVARIAN CANCER are not thoroughly checked to see if the disease has spread to their abdomen and lymph nodes, a study shows. The step can make the difference between life and death...
...exhibited across the U.S. from 1829 to 1840. Eng and Chang, who lived to the ripe old age of 63--still a record for conjoined twins--were connected at the chest by a flexible band of cartilage. (Modern surgeons could have separated them easily.) Connections at the chest and abdomen are the most frequent configuration for conjoined twins, though medical texts list more than a dozen possible permutations. Dicephalic twins like the Hensels, who have two heads but share one two-legged body, are among the rarest. Only three or four cases are on record...
...case, though, the male not only lets himself be devoured; he also performs acrobatics to make it happen. As soon as the male has put what is delicately known as his intromittent organ into his much larger mate, he turns a somersault--without slipping out--and dangles his juicy abdomen right in front of her mouth. Who could resist? Not the female, who usually begins chomping away...