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Word: rectum (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...effect usually achieved by nicking some tail tendons and muscles when the horse is young and, before a show, inserting a shot of ginger in the rectum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Five Speeds Forward | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...editors. Every page was laid out in punchy, advertising style. Each issue bloomed with color printing. Weird symbols of internal organs caught the eye. Among the standing features: "Tumor Topics" and "Cancer Quiz." The Bulletin could say anything with enthusiasm. Inch-high type clarioned: "EVERY PERSON HAS A RECTUM . . . Any Doctor Can Examine It." An article on digital examination to detect cancer of the breast was briskly headed "Stop, Look and Feel," and decked with 17 drawings in color. The editors and artists even hit on a way to make a cover design for castration (a palliative for cancer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Doctors, Attention! | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

Some doctors disagreed. Cried a Ministry of Public Health spokesman: "Absurd! . . . The worst that could have resulted was a case of diarrhea and an irritated rectum." But Detective Bascou was so sure of his ground that he closed his investigation as a police problem and recommended that a medical commission carry on. Solution of the Mâcon "murders" was now up to the doctors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Puzzle of the 17 Patients | 9/8/1947 | See Source »

...very fat when captured, had evidently first secreted the two-inch cylinder in his navel. As he grew leaner & leaner, his "umbilical cavity" (as the report called it) became unsatisfactory as a hiding place, and he began hiding the precious cylinder in his "alimentary tract" (meaning, doubtless, his rectum). In other words, the No. 2 Nazi used a stratagem known to run-of-the-courthouse detectives the world over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR CRIMES: Epilogue | 11/4/1946 | See Source »

...doctors operated for what they felt certain was complicated umbilical hernia, they were amazed to find that the patient's self-diagnosis of "knifelike" pains had been literally accurate: there was actually a nine-inch table knife in his sigmoid. the curve of the intestine leading to the rectum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Punishment | 1/21/1946 | See Source »

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