Word: appendix
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...patient's name, he continued, was Louis, and he was about to have his appendix removed. Presently Bill turned the microphone over, to Dr. Edward Allen Nixon, who stood near the table...
Said Dr. Nixon: "The vermiform appendix ... is a small tubelike growth which projects from the large intestine near the spot where the large and small intestines meet. The appendix is from a quarter to a half-inch thick, and from three to four inches long. All but the last inch or so ... is usually attached to the colon so that it must be carefully removed...
...best features of the book is the listing in the appendix of photographer, camera film and paper used, but as usual, the least important ones are the most profusely annotated...
...spectacles. Steward Schwerdtfeger grasped Mrs. William Buckler by one foot just as she was going over the rail. In the ship's hospital Dr. Thomas Fister was sent spinning with bottles, instruments, in water up to his knees, staggered back to aid the engine-room storekeeper, whose appendix he had just removed. Paul van Zeeland, former Premier of Belgium, in his cabin with his wife and four children, was knocked unconscious. A kettle of boiling water and grease engulfed Fred Stover, chief butcher. Mrs. Tatiana Sztybel, refugee from the siege of Warsaw, was hurled against a wall like...
...travel films and Walt Disney cartoons, got into a discussion over whether icebergs should be called "he" or "she." On Saturday His Majesty's Surgeon Captain Henry Ellis Yeo White and the Empress' Dr. Joseph Maxwell made an emergency trip to the Glasgow, took out the appendix of a seaman...