Word: stomachal
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...researchers investigated the role that angiogensis, or the growth and proliferation of blood vessels, plays in the healing of wounds such as stomach ulcers. It was reported ten years ago that bFGF promotes such growth and proliferation...
STICKING TO NEW YEAR'S resolutions is no piece of cake. Before the Big Apple is even comfortably perched atop Times Square, criminals who had repented just moments earlier already begin snagging wallets, George Bush's lips go in reverse as taxes are raised and Oprah's stomach suddenly can't survive on liquids alone...
...second alternative is surgical: rebuilding the breast with tissue taken from the stomach or buttocks. But this involves a lengthy and costly operation and is appropriate only for women who have usable tissue to spare...
...spectacle of Miyazawa cradling the prostrate leader of the free world in his lap was doubly unsettling and sent shudders around the globe. White House spokesmen assured the public that Bush was suffering from nothing more serious than exhaustion and a stomach-churning touch of gastroenteritis. Still, the brief fainting spell brought to the fore concerns about the President's health and reminded voters that Dan Quayle remains only a heartbeat away from the Oval Office. Far worse for Bush, the image was an obvious metaphor for the American economy: flat on its back, seeking succor from a resurgent Japan...
...most cells can be grown in culture, it is often difficult to recreate a reasonable facsimile of the original organ. In the technique, known as autografting, doctors can now remove a group of skin cells one centimeter square from behind a patient's ear, or from a patient's stomach, and within three weeks reproduce a sheet of the cells of whatever size is necessary to treat the patient...