Word: fecal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...formed by pressure inside the gut, forcing the inner layer (mucosa) through a weak spot in the outer, muscular layers. It may be no bigger than a BB shot, or it may be the size of a plum with a stalklike neck. If the neck is extremely narrow, fecal matter forced into the diverticulum will stay there, setting up an ever-present threat of infection and making the condition harder to detect since the barium used to get X-ray contrast may not penetrate the diverticulum sufficiently. In the symptom-free stage of diverticulosis there may be dozens of small...
...Mexico, found that amoebae and the most-feared bacteria could be eliminated as suspects. A probable culprit in many cases: microbes of the common genus Staphylococcus, which may multiply in food kept under poor refrigeration and prepared under unsanitary conditions-but this usually has nothing to do with fecal contamination of food and water. In other cases, overeating and consumption of highly spiced or oily foods may be to blame...
...with no bowel movement, had no lasting ill effects. For a trip to the moon, the Air Force thinks it now has an airtight zipper-type fastening for pressure suits that will enable the pilot to function like a duck hunter opening the flap on his long-Johns; the fecal matter will go into plastic bags, be deodorized and stowed unobtrusively...
...great crisis of a tapeworm's life comes in the egg stage. When it is first launched on the world, usually in fecal matter, an egg cannot survive unless it happens to be swallowed by an animal that can serve as intermediate host. Most eggs perish, but the survivors that find a home spring into a burst of frantic activity. Out of their capsules come hook-armed embryos that claw their way through the intestines of the intermediate host and form cysts in its tissues...
Physicians make a sharp distinction between infectious hepatitis, usually spread by fecal matter, and serum hepatitis, or "needle jaundice," because the latter is carried only by blood.* That, and the fact that the serum type takes two or more months to develop (three times as long as the infectious variety), are the most obvious differences. Both kinds of hepatitis make the patient equally miserable, causing headache, fever, nausea and loss of appetite. In most cases, jaundice appears. Though hepatitis is rarely fatal, it may cause severe liver damage...