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Word: sigmoids (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1946-1946
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When the 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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