Word: duodenum
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...string and slowly worked the nail up through the digestive tract and out the boy's mouth. In seven years he took assorted hardware from the insides of 16 other youngsters, but then met a stubborn case where a nail had been stuck in a boy's duodenum for three weeks. The little magnet would not budge it. So the doctor got two bigger magnets, placed them over the boy's body above the little one, and thus gave it their added pull. By moving them over a snaky course following the loops of the duodenum...
...Aspirin is a severe stomach irritant in some patients, especially those who already have ulcers of the stomach or duodenum, two researchers in Scotland reported in the British Medical Journal. Ulcers or no, aspirin was found partly responsible for a high proportion of cases of vomiting blood...
...opening in his stomach shows that smoking makes little difference when the smoker is happy and at ease, but if he smokes under stress (as most smokers do), the results may be bad: nausea, stopping of stomach contractions, decrease in blood flow and stomach secretions. When the stomach or duodenum is already diseased (as with ulcers), smoking must be cut down...
...Hiatus. With the small patient under ether, Dr. Swan made a huge incision to open chest and abdomen. He pulled out a loop of the jejunum (uppermost part of the small intestine) and cut it off near the duodenum. Carefully he worked the long, free end upward to the diaphragm. For a time Dr. Swan had to turn his attention back to the dangling duodenum (see chart): he made a T-junction by stitching its attached bit of jejunum into the intestinal tract a couple of feet below the original cut (making a natural outlet for digestive juices...
...veins. Four and a half hours after operation's start, he was able to begin the fine sewing necessary to join the jejunum to the upper end of the esophagus. This gave Mike a short-circuited digestive tract: throat to gullet to jejunum, with the stomach and duodenum as spectators. Dr. Swan now had a choice. He could close Mike up, as originally planned, and finish the operation after jejunum and esophagus had grown together. Or he might go right ahead and make the necessary connection with the stomach. "How's your patient?" Dr. Swan asked the anesthesiologist...