Word: fossa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...duodenum as a unit and also took a kidney. They implanted the kidney near the patient's right groin. Then, instead of replacing her own pancreas and duodenum with the graft, they left her digestive tract intact and implanted the entire new unit in the left iliac fossa, just above the groin. It is hooked up to her arteries and veins, so it spills its hormones into the bloodstream, where they augment the output of her own failing organs...