Word: bowel
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Health, an American Medical Association publication, Dr. Charles W. Hock estimates that 100 million Americans are laxative addicts, worry unnecessarily about "regularity." Says Dr. Hock: "Oldfashioned habits, half-truths and incorrect beliefs, and today's advertising have brainwashed the American public into accepting the idea that a daily bowel movement is a necessity for anyone. Your doctor knows nothing could be further from the truth." Each person's elimination needs vary, and regularity of bowel movements can be affected by such minor factors as diet changes, physical activity and emotional fluctuations-all of which are usually temporary...
...Bowel difficulty...
...anal opening (the lower colon wound itself into another dead end). Furthermore, both kidneys were on the right side, and one did not work. Surgeons at nearby Odessa made a temporary opening into Phillip's stomach so he could be fed, and another opening in the lower bowel for evacuation. But the sickly infant, in constant danger of death from pneumonia or choking in his own saliva, was still an insupportable burden to his father (a low-paid oilfield worker) and his mother who had four other youngsters to care...
...them for healthy women wisely having regular examinations. Vast ingenuity has gone into extensions of the Pap test: aerosols to make a smoker cough up deep mucus to reveal lung cancer; swallowed balloons and brushes to catch cells from stomach cancer; special washings to reveal disease in the large bowel and rectum...
...Ohishi's digestive juices. In them microbiologists found a flourishing growth of a yeastlike fungus, Candida (or Monilia) albicans, occasional cause of human infections, but usually in the mouth or the vagina. In a normal gut, Candida may occur without causing fermentation. But in Ohishi's repaired bowel there was a little pocket where the Candida hid, multiplied, and busily fermented carbohydrates to form alcohol...