Word: fallopian
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...herself of a daughter who was found to be, at age seven months, subnormal in intelligence. The court, by an 8-to-1 vote, rejected Buck's appeal. In his majority opinion, Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote, "The principle that sustains compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the Fallopian tubes," and concluded, "Three generations of imbeciles are enough...
Writing in last week's issue of Science, the Japanese researchers report that they achieved this feat of bovine photocopying using two different types of cells, taken from a single cow's ovaries and fallopian tubes. Those cells--all carrying the same genetic payload--were introduced into cow ova whose genes had been scooped away. Ten such identical embryos were then implanted in the wombs of surrogate cow mothers, and all but two came to term...
Unfortunately, what Janowski felt was not terribly far from the truth. A small, benign ovarian cyst that had developed weeks before had shifted into a position where it was aggravating her Fallopian tube and cutting off blood flow...
When Harvard's second-round game against Arkansas began the following Monday night, the Crimson was minus its starting center. Minutes after the opening tip, Janowski went into surgery, where doctors removed both the affected ovary and the Fallopian tube. Since her other ovary and corresponding Fallopian tube had been removed in the previous surgery, the operation left Janowski without the ability to reproduce...
...help her adjustment that she was diagnosed with a cyst during a routine physical at the start of her freshman season. The enormous cyst, which bordered on being cancerous, had to be lanced, and one ovary and one Fallopian tube were removed in the process...