Word: rectally
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...down and we'll order coffee." While they sipped their coffee at Doney's, the first man checked the dial on a small instrument hooked to his belt. He was noting his temperature. There was a wire leading from the gauge down his trousers to a rectal thermometer...
...responsible for the detailed exegesis of the President's September 1955 heart attack and seven-week recuperation. "Every American family has had a heart attack in it," reasoned Hagerty. "People are deeply interested in the President's recovery." Thus, White House aides released such minutiae as his rectal temperature and bowel movements, embarrassing as many citizens as they reassured...
...uterus, but much of the lower colon and also the bladder. This necessitates making an artificial bladder from a section of small bowel, or leading the ure ters into the colon, which then empties both urine and feces into a "wet colostomy" bag. After more conventional operations for rectal cancer that has not spread widely, only fecal matter passes through the "dry colostomy" opening in the abdominal wall, because the bladder and urethra are left in tact. Since no two patients' diseases are alike, Brunschwig operations vary in the number of organs and length of bowel removed...
Congratulations upon the interesting and heartening report [May 10] concerning William Powell's operation for rectal cancer 25 years...
...cases of rectal cancer are detected early enough to be treated as Powell's was. If the disease is widespread, the only hope is removal of the rectum. Says Powell simply: "I was one of the lucky ones...