Word: vermiform
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...Recently we have received inquiries about breeding koalas in captivity, probably as a result of your article. It may interest your readers to know-though of course this is quite apart from interest in preservation of the species-that koalas are unique in having a vermiform appendix of six to eight feet in length...
Such worms may travel from the intestines to the stomach whence they may be vomited, to the nose, to the middle ear, to the larynx where they occasionally cause fatal suffocation, to the common bile duct where they may cause jaundice, to the pancreas, to the vermiform appendix. A child who suffers from digestive disturbances, capricious appetite, abdominal pains, gas, vomiting, restlessness and irritability, itchy nose, grinding of the teeth, foul breath, headache, dizziness, cough, convulsions, anemia, peakedness may be suffering from roundworms...
...Greek and Latin requirements are a sort of vermiform appendix in the academic system, vestiges of an earlier order at Harvard in which the classics were the central point of college education. Today they are not only useless, but a serious hindrance to pursuing a rational program of study. The CRIMSON has protested against them from time to time, not because they involve work in the dead languages, but because they are utterly pointless from any angle of criticism. According to the "Rules Relating to College Studies": Candidates for the degree of S.B., in order to receive Honors (in English...
...proposal Senator Ashurst had declared: "The peninsula is a vermiform appendix to Mexico. It is the heel, the Achilles heel, to the United States. The Mexican Republic is both unwilling and unable to police the domain and is unable to resist aggressions from or settlements by Oriental powers...
...medium-sized vermiform appendix (they vary from less than one inch to more than seven inches in length) was successfully removed in Edinburgh, Scotland, last week from Miss Joan Margaret MacDonald (second daughter). She, aged 22 and a fourth-year student of surgery at the University of Edinburgh, became engaged last month to a graduate medical student, Alastair MacKinnon, 23 (TIME, Sept...