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Word: bowel (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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After burrowing into a human victim, the flukes mature in the liver, cuddle up in pairs, migrate to small blood vessels in the bladder or large bowel wall, mate, lay eggs, start a new cycle. It begins when the eggs are discharged in urine or faeces, are picked up by the snails again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Egyptian Plague | 12/9/1946 | See Source »

...convict who concealed, in his colon, "a tool box containing a piece of gun barrel, a screw driver, two hack saws, a boring syringe, a file, several coins, thread and tallow." Instead of hacking or boring his way to freedom, the ingenious convict escaped his cell by dying of bowel obstruction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Punishment | 1/21/1946 | See Source »

Said a doctor standing by: "Look at that. First they take out the spleen, then they resect [cut and mend] the small bowel, next they sew up the rent in the colon. In civilian life any one of those would be regarded as a major operation." Before the two doctors finished, they had removed a total of nearly two feet of gut, which they tossed into a wastebasket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: On Iwo Jima | 3/19/1945 | See Source »

...daily bowel movement is important. . . . Carry one pad of toilet paper in your helmet where it is handy and will keep dry. Use it sparingly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - OPERATIONS: Advice to Warriors | 9/6/1943 | See Source »

...civilian clothes, he appeared at his first cocktail party in a white suit borrowed from a waiter. He has been to nightclubs only twice, but is constantly on the trail of hamburgers: "What wouldn't I give for a hamburger?" He spent Christmas in bed with desarranjo (bowel discord...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Wincheil in Brazil | 1/11/1943 | See Source »

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