Word: colons
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Only then was it possible to turn to the actual job of repairing the extensive damage: multiple wounds in the small intestine, in the lower part of the colon (large intestine) and in the mesentery (the tissue that holds the intestine to the rear abdominal wall). The doctors apparently removed two damaged sections of the small intestine and one of the large intestine, then sewed the ends back together. The surgeons also performed a temporary colostomy, rerouting the colon through a hole they created in the abdominal wall. A colostomy allows wastes to be collected in an external bag, giving...
...based on studies of 156 patients at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center at UCLA and the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center in Tucson. The patients had advanced cancers, usually of the lung, breast, colon and rectum, that could no longer be treated by standard methods. Laetrile was given intravenously for 21 days, then orally three times daily...
...Cross seems confused about the ages of her characters; a man who seems thirtyish suddenly becomes a World War II vet, for example. The denouement of the mystery is predictable and dull. And a minor annoyance: Cross's work suffers from the classic academician's addiction to the semi-colon. Alas, it is no surprise, considering Amanda Cross is, in real life, Carolyn Heilbrun, a tenured professor of English at (of all places) Columbia...
...coffee lovers the black brew is an elixir that soothes frazzled nerves, gives the mind a lift at exam time, spells drop-in hospitality to the housewife. Yet in recent years coffee has been tentatively tied to various afflictions, including diabetes, heart attack, and cancer of the colon, urinary tract and stomach. Last week Harvard University researchers announced a statistical link between coffee and cancer of the pancreas. The pancreas produces enzymes vital to digestion and the hormone insulin for sugar metabolism. Pancreatic cancer claims 22,000 lives a year. It is the fifth largest cause of cancer death...
Last week, after a six-week delay, In cumbent Romero was at last declared the winner. He received 47.2% of the votes to Hernandez Colon's 47.1% - a margin of 3,503 ballots...