Word: colon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...throne, but that France would help Morocco to "achieve the status of an independent state, united to France by the permanent ties of an interdependence freely accepted and defined." Pinay even agreed that the terms of "interdependence" could be negotiated later (they are still unsettled). Grumbled one unreconstructed colon: "The Sultan asked for a cup of water and Pinay gave him the ocean...
...Schindler came to this conclusion by trial and error, and admits once ordering the removal of a gall bladder from a woman whose pains actually ceased only with the return of her soldier son. Psychosomatic medicine receives some strikingly visceral tributes from Schindler's subheads, e.g., "The Colon Is the Mirror of the Mind," "From the Emotions, Too, Stem Most Belches...
...kind of regional ileitis the fashion in operations has gone through three main phases. At first it was taken for granted that the only thing to do was to cut the diseased section of ileum out of the body and attach the cut end of the ileum to the colon. But this was a relatively long and bloody procedure. It gave no better results than two types of bypass operations, which came into fashion next (see diagram). In one, the type performed on Ike, a healthy loop of ileum is drawn up and spliced into the colon, but the diseased...
...description as a recognized disease until 1932, when Dr. Burrill Crohn, of Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital, listed its symptoms and put a name to it: regional ileitis. Usually it is limited to the last couple of loops in the small intestine before the junction with the ascending colon, part of the large intestine (see chart). Europeans often call it Crohn's disease...
...well-known. Inflammation in the end loops causes the walls of the ileum to become engorged with blood, while the inner surface develops scar tissue. The inflamed area becomes swollen with water. These conditions narrow the passage through which the remnants of food, now mostly digested, pass into the colon. When the closure is extreme, waste matter cannot be discharged...