Word: acidizing
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...strength and weakness of Mother & Son lie, as always in a Compton-Burnett novel, in the long dialogues in which characters of every age vie with one another in calling a spade a spade, thereby turning it into a hatchet. Sometimes the talk is mere tasty acid drops ("I have not the courage to live on charity ..." "I have the courage but not the chance"); sometimes it is compactly expressive of universal human attitudes ("Let me persuade you to try our fruit. We can buy much better, but we take a pride in our own"). Many of the remarks...
...Swan pulled the jejunum over, made an opening in its side, and stitched it to the mouth of the stomach. What distinguished his technique from similar opera tions for this purpose was that he was careful to hook up with the cardia, part of the valve which keeps acid stomach juices from percolating back up toward the mouth. (Without a cardia, he is convinced, the patient would later have ulcers or other upsets.) This stitching done. Mike had two digestive tracts, beginning with the inverted "Y" at the hiatus...
...Toothpaste manufacturers often claim that complex chemicals called anti-enzymes cut down acid formation in the mouth and therefore tooth decay. Three Rochester (N.Y.) researchers ran careful tests and reported: the anti-enzymes reduce acidity all right-but not in the important crevices between the teeth where decay usually occurs...
...case of John George Haigh, who murdered nine people and dissolved their bodies in acid (TIME, Aug. 1, 1949), Webb scored another kind of beat. Haigh had sold the bylined story of his crime for 5,000 pounds to The People's competitor. News of the World. Webb went after Haigh's girl friend, who had adamantly refused all offers to tell her story...
...been there in milder form since birth), but there was no doubt that it was the cause of much of the Pope's recent gastritis, hiccuping and vomiting. The hernia held food like a pouch, instead of letting it pass straight into the main part of the stomach. Acid and digesting food in the pouch irritated the esophagus and diaphragm, causing hiccups and vomiting...