Word: hemorrhoidal
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...Koocher '71, a member of the committee, acknowledged last week that he had accused Richard E. Wiley, the letter's author and the dean of Lesley's graduate school of education, of "knowingly misrepresenting" Lesley College to the committee and had described the college of "growing like a hemorrhoid" on Cambridge...
...brought his resting pulse beat down from 60 to 50 beats per minute. The most versatile athlete of the three candidates, Carter also likes fishing and tennis. He gets six hours sleep a night, and avoids hops, lima beans and Swiss cheese, to which he is allergic. His hemorrhoid problem appears to be inactive. He occasionally suffers shin splints from jogging...
...teams played seesaw ball from the start. Geroge Brett, back in action after a hemorrhoid operation, turned on the Royals' scoreboard in the bottom of the first inning, smacking a Dick Ruthven change-up over the center field fence...
Here on the center shelves are the prosaic items, toothbrushes and toothpaste, utilitarian, kid-proofed bottles of aspirin, razor blades, wart-burning solutions, hemorrhoid suppositories, the banal soaps of everyday for people who use soap to get clean. You notice the preponderance of American trochees: Colgate, Ben-Gay, Right Guard, Band Aids, Q-TIPS...
...hemorrhoids are internal, away from the lower rectum's nerve endings, physicians often rely on a technique known as rubber-band ligation. A tiny rubber band is looped tightly around the swollen region. No longer drawing nourishing blood, the hemorrhoid withers away. Carter, plagued by hemorrhoids since college, had just such a procedure in 1974. Some doctors inject a special solution into nearby tissue that constricts the vessels and thus cuts off the blood supply. Still another technique involves dilating, or widening, the anus with stretching devices...