Word: enemas
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...with 180-degree symmetry and about a sixth of the squares black. The words, of no fewer than three letters, are interlocked. And nothing naughty, please. Reagle, one of the puzzlemakers who appears in Wordplay, mourns that he is forbidden to use vowel-rich words like urine and enema. (I'd guess that somebody somewhere has created R- or X-rated crosswords - English is as at least as rich in obscenities as it is in four-letter words for Irish slave - but I haven't seen them...
...gold standard of screenings because it allows doctors to examine the whole length of the lower intestine and snip off any precancerous polyps they find--you may not need to be screened again for 10 years. If you use one of the less definitive tests-- a flexible sigmoidoscopy, barium enema or simple stool analysis--you should get tested more frequently...
...conceded at the Saturday press conference that the size of the polyp suggests it has been growing for a long time, perhaps years or decades. Even before the conference, however, other physicians were questioning why it had not been detected earlier either by a colonoscopic inspection or a barium enema. Said Dr. Stephen Hanauer, a gastroenterologist at the University of Chicago: "The bottom line was, if he had either blood in his stool or a polyp last year, then our way of dealing with that is to recommend examination of the entire colon for polyps." The President's doctors stood...
Time it takes to administer an ice cube enema...
...required to undergo seven years of training and to spend at least a year in a conventional hospital. Treatments range from the familiar and soothing, like abhyianga, a body massage with medicated oil administered by two masseuses working in tandem, to the out-there, like vasti, a cleansing enema of oil, milk or herbal water. Some more traditional Ayurvedic centers offer therapeutic purging and leeching, but most tourist spas stick to the treatments that actually feel good, like massages and herbal or flower baths...