Word: sphincter
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FISSURE FIX Relief is reported for the painful skin tears known as anal fissures. Injecting the area with a tiny amount of botulinum toxin--yes, the stuff that causes botulism--seems to allow the sphincter to relax. That creates more blood flow--and helps the fissure heal...
This, of course, implies that any non-SNL watchers should beware; most of the lines are funny for only two reasons: A They are either the expected Wayne-isms (e.g. Not, sphincter, schwing I'm not worthy, etc.) or B. They are extensions of the lovable characters of Wayne and Garth that only fans can appreciate (Garth scratching a car in a body shop with an electric screw driver, or their car named the Mirthmobile). Basically, Wayne's World has been tailor-made for devoted SNL followers...
...victims, including children with persistent bed-wetting trouble. Incontinence, which can range from slight leakage to total absence of control, can be caused by such illnesses as multiple sclerosis and cancer, as well as by damage to the spinal cord, congenital defects, an enlarged prostate or a weakened sphincter muscle around the opening of the bladder. In the last case, any sort of physical stress -- jogging, jumping, even sneezing or laughing -- can trigger an accident...
Medical literature has been woefully slight, but doctors now point to a number of treatments, some as simple as a series of exercises to strengthen pelvic muscles, others involving surgery to correct an enlarged prostate or weak sphincter. New experimental medications may help block errant signals to the bladder's nerves or relax overly taut bladder tissue. Artificial sphincters opened by squeezing a small pump have been successfully implanted for more than a decade. Scientists at the University of California at San Francisco are testing a bladder pacemaker. Using a remote control, the patient can send signals to implanted electrodes...
...anatomical switch that can cause excitement." Dr. Kermit Krantz, chairman of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, believes that lovers aiming for the so-called G spot in fact are hitting a more general nerve area around the weak sphincter muscle of the vagina and the cavernous tissue of the urethra. Says Krantz: "I would like to know on what anatomical basis the G spot is explained. Have they made biopsies of it?" The authors, he thinks, have drawn a conclusion based on inadequate evidence. Adds Krantz: "We shouldn't make claims...