Word: bowel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flukes, it is found around marshy deltas, sewage-contaminated lakes and irrigation ditches, where the larvae of the worms lodge in snails and flourish. Invading the human body through the skin, the larvae head for the liver, there mature into flukes that migrate to the small veins of the bowel, where the female lays innumerable eggs every day, sometimes for years. Many eggs are swept into the liver and other organs. They cause irritation and scarring in the liver (which leads to enlargement of the spleen), intestinal damage, bleeding from the esophagus, stunting of growth, anemia and blood...
...additional duodenum is not yet connected directly to the digestive tract. It will be hooked into a loop of the small bowel in about a month if the transplant remains healthy. So far, the transplanted kidney has effectively filtered the patient's blood and made urine; the pancreatic-duodenal graft has done its work so well that she has needed no insulin since her surgery...
...soul, he writes; fresh food has more soul than canned food. Terminal cancer cases can be arrested by reading William Burroughs: "Bet money on that." The now-notorious Mailer sense of smell, which got such a bloodhound workout in his last novel, An American Dream, now concentrates on the bowel: man's nature, he says, can be divined in "the color, the shape, the odor and the movement" of his stool...
...entire distended abdomen. He suffers nausea and flatulence, and then a profuse, watery diarrhea. The mechanism of these reactions has now become clear, say Dr. Struthers and his Colorado colleague, Dr. Fred Kern Jr. Lactase is supposed to do its sugar-splitting work along the lining of the small bowel; if the enzyme is missing or in short supply, the undigested sugar passes into the large bowel, where it is promptly fermented. In the process, it generates gas and draws water into the bowel...
...seven: unusual bleeding or discharge; a lump or thickening in the breast or elsewhere; a sore that does not heal; a change in bowel or bladder habits; hoarseness or a cough; indigestion or difficulty in swallowing; a change in a wart or mole...