Word: resectioning
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...room is no longer teaching," Griswold says, "it becomes histrionics, entertainment." Yale and Harvard have succumbed to the "curse of bigness," he confesses, but they have done an admirable job of holding the line. "The House system and College system are particularly valuable in this resect. They provide valuable small college intimacy and serve as a brake on larger enrollments since both universities gauge admissions to fit their residential systems...
Said a doctor standing by: "Look at that. First they take out the spleen, then they resect [cut and mend] the small bowel, next they sew up the rent in the colon. In civilian life any one of those would be regarded as a major operation." Before the two doctors finished, they had removed a total of nearly two feet of gut, which they tossed into a wastebasket...
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