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...some school in Baltimore” (i.e. Johns Hopkins) sends the faculty into a tizzy of reformation. Lyrics of popular songs are transformed into medical jargon, like in “Anatomist’s Got Back”: “When a girl walks in with an ischium-size waist / And a gluteus in your face / You get sprung, wanna pull off your glove.” In an anatomy class spoof on “Dancing with the Stars,” students explain how exactly to be a uterus through dancing. The show...

Author: By Mia P. Walker, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Medical Students: Breaking a Leg for the 102nd Time | 12/10/2008 | See Source »

When Willie Shakespeare, rumoredly at the behest of good Queen Bess, goes all out for "slap me on the ischium, and pinch me on the mammae," the result is good fun, but who said clean. When the stock company undertakes to spice it up a bit, where the heck was Jim Curley's sister...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 4/9/1946 | See Source »

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