Word: pylorus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feel ill; often he asked doctors for some assurance that disease could not be inherited. On St. Helena, a month before his death, he returned to questions about the anatomy and physiology of the stomach. As he was dying, the hidden fear erupted in his delirium: "My father . . . the pylorus ... I have known it for a long time...
...perforation near the pylorus (the stomach's opening into the small intestine) showed up in the autopsy on Napoleon; the internal surface of the stomach was "practically covered by a cancerous mass, as were all of the lymph nodes...