Word: esophagus
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...Enclosed instead were a copy of the basic "who must file" instructions (someone had underlined, in purple, the paragraph about widows and widowers) and a photocopy of a death certificate for a man named Clyde Majors, who had died in 1988 of "myocardial infarction due to a ruptured esophagus." ("WARNING:" read the bottom of the death certificate the IRS had photocopied for me, "Any reproduction of this document is prohibited...
...sympathetic to the enormous task the IRS is charged with," I wrote back, "but as you can imagine, it is hard for me to understand what Mr. Majors' esophagus might have to do with the error on Schedule E of my return." I went on to explain that, lest this turn into some sort of nightmare in which I awoke one day to find my home being loaded onto a truck, & I was enclosing the disputed amount due, plus interest -- but that I'd still appreciate knowing, at their convenience, what the alleged error was on my Schedule...
...newborn babies may come to depend on some cost-benefit analysis of their chance of living a "full healthy and active life." In the Baby Doe case in 1982, the Indiana courts allowed a couple to refuse surgery for their baby born with Down's syndrome and an incomplete esophagus; after six days, the baby starved to death. That emotional case raised the concern that some hospitals were not recommending even routine treatment for babies with Down's syndrome, spina bifida, cerebral palsy and other serious but treatable disabilities...
...effects of bulimia are psychological. Vomiting damages the digestive track, tears the esophagus, erodes tooth enamel and can lead to anemia...
Even before last month, when the senior Wang underwent surgery for cancer of the esophagus, Wall Street suspected that the family-controlled company might be put up for sale. Now that Wang's heir apparent has stepped aside, that prospect seems even more likely...