appendix

In hospitals in which the reimbursement rates for appendectomies ran higher, for instance, the surgeons removed more appendixes.

If instituting fair grades leads to crying, sobbing and “soul-crushing” setbacks, I wish her luck should she ever be called on to dig out a ruptured appendix at 3 a.m. on her birthday.

But the book includes an appendix of poems he cherishes by the likes of W.H.

That is explained in an appendix more than halfway through the 394-page document.

"By the time he got there, his appendix was completely burst, he had a blocked bowel, it was twisted. He was in a real mess," she said.