Word: anus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...larva has a closed alimentary canal. All the waste matter from its heavy protein diet is stored in an internal sac until the baby mud dauber has finished its food store. Then the larva develops an anus and excretes the entire sac into a back compartment of its bedchamber. It seals off the narrow connecting passage with a blob of quick-hardening cement, secreted especially for the purpose, so that it can spend the winter hygienically in the clean, dry front chamber...
Accented as it was, "del ano" in Italian means "of the anus." Benito Mussolini has always found that the best defense is to be offensive...
...Young is most widely known for an operation commonly used for relieving prostate trouble, which afflicts one out of every five middle-aged men. He makes an incision in front of the anus and "shells out" the enlarged lobes of the prostate. His punch operation started the removal of prostatic enlargements through the natural urinary opening. He also designed radical operations for cancer of the prostate, a number of operations to treat hermaphrodites, restore them to their predominant sex. One "girl" whom he turned into a man fell in love with an Institute nurse and married her. His enormous tome...