Word: colon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tract cuts down on caloric absorption, enabling excessively overweight people to shed pounds regardless of how much they eat. To perform it, the surgeon severs the small intestine near the end of the jejunum, or second section, and connects it to the ileum just above the beginning of the colon. This in turn reduces the length of the active small intestine from 23 feet to a mere 30 inches, drastically lessening the time it takes for food to pass through the system. This reduces the amount of digested material that can be absorbed through the intestinal walls...
...down on his back and slashed him four times in the throat leaving the serrated knife buried deep within. He stabbed him four times in the abdomen into the colon, all fatal wounds. He bled to death, helped by the throw pillow with which Tex smothered his face to stop the screams...Not to be outdone. Katie took the carving fork and stabbed both bodies with it. Seven double punctures punctured here and there into the abdomen of Mr. LaBianca, till she left it embedded in his flesh near the navel to the bifur cation of the tines. Katie said...
...peril is rising. Since 1947, the male cancer rate has climbed from 280 per 100,000 to 304, while the death rate has risen by nearly 40%. Tumors of the prostate and colon account for part of the increase, but lung cancer is the biggest factor in the upsurge. The lung-cancer death rate among American men is three times greater than in 1947; next year the disease is expected to kill 56,000. Women are also suffering from lung cancer in growing numbers...
Most yachtsmen are eager to keep waterways clean and clear. They want to swim and fish over the side without encountering colon bacteria and other health hazards. And until recently, they never thought of themselves as polluters. Although the traditional marine "head" simply flushes wastes through the side of the boat and into the water, such sewage, thanks to nature's purifying processes, used to be only a modest problem in fresh waters and no problem at all in tide-flushed coastal waters...
Almost all nutrients enter the system by absorption through the walls of the small intestine, which had been removed and replaced by an emergency short circuit from the patient's duodenum to the remainder of her colon (see diagram). The only recourse was intravenous feeding, which is rarely satisfactory for more than a few weeks, even in a hospital. And Jane Smith (not her real name), 37, was eager to go home to her two young children...