appendix
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The appendix, once considered a completely useless evolutionary left-over, is now thought to have minor immune functions.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 11, 2026
At 37, an emergency room visit for severe belly pain showed the culprit: a neuroendocrine tumor in the appendix, the size of an Oreo, but much more troublesome.
From Slate ● May 6, 2026
The book’s appendix provides six pages of instructions for performing a cranial exam but concludes by reminding would-be practitioners not to fret over their lack of experience because “phrenology isn’t real anyhow.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026
Her appendix was removed and she was put on a waiting list for a specialist women's hospital.
From BBC ● Mar. 16, 2026
Dr. Achufusi, an avuncular and pleasant man, pressed at Ifemelu’s side and announced, “It’s your appendix, very inflamed. We should get it out quickly.”
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
A scientific report released with the new federal dietary guidelines included appendices, which cited several meta-analyses examining sweeteners’ association with the risk of various health problems.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026
But following appeals lodged by industry groups, the ICC board moved the measures to the code’s appendices, effectively making them optional, as first reported by the HuffPost.
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
It was one of four appendixes the committee included that covered material that bore less directly on Trump’s personal culpability.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 22, 2022
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
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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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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