appendix
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On October 26, she had a total hysterectomy - where the womb and cervix are removed - along with the removal of her omentum and appendix during a six-hour operation.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
When I finally saw a doctor, he diagnosed a burst appendix and peritonitis—the swelling of thin tissue that lines the belly wall.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
He described how his wife was determined to get better and sought private treatment at the Christie cancer treatment centre in Manchester, which included the removal of her appendix.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
The appendix, once considered a completely useless evolutionary left-over, is now thought to have minor immune functions.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 11, 2026
The next day, we were allowed to inspect the appendix itself in a glass bottle.
From "Boy: Tales of a Childhood" by Roald Dahl
Two appendices provide advice and suggestions for further reading.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Maser said even including the provisions in the appendices “is a step forward from the 2021 code,” which did not have such provisions at all.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 14, 2024
Lynda Claassen: Have you thought about, or have you found out anything about the publication of my appendices or copelata work?
From Scientific American ● Oct. 5, 2023
The 10-page memo, with 265 pages of appendices, includes some fascinating and funny details about how this golf merger came to be.
From Slate ● Jul. 11, 2023
I had finished the appendices of The Lord of the Rings, but I still had some econ reading left.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
The report, a mere nine pages including two appendixes, does not identify the mysterious unidentified phenomena—neither as mundane human technology nor anything extraterrestrial.
From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2021
If you want more practical help than that, Saunders provides some exercises in the appendixes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 7, 2021
Host Meagan Cantwell talks with Viviane Labrie of the Van Andel Institute in Grand Rapids, Michigan, about new research suggesting people without their appendixes have a reduced risk of Parkinson’s.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 1, 2018
The edition I chose for my students did not help: It had no notes, no biographical material, no supplemental readings, no appendixes, no chronologies and no historical, scientific or political context.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 23, 2017
In hospitals in which the reimbursement rates for appendectomies ran higher, for instance, the surgeons removed more appendixes.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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