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
Some of the most illuminating material in “Defending Taiwan” arrives in an appendix, where the author interviews four prominent figures in Taipei.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 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
Her appendix was removed and she was put on a waiting list for a specialist women's hospital.
From BBC ● Mar. 16, 2026
“We kept getting different stories from the State Department. Somebody said your appendix ruptured. Somebody else said it was a bar fight.”
From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen
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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
In three appendices to his book, Turchin provides a non-technical explanation of his approach to understanding history and how it developed over time.
From Salon ● Jun. 25, 2023
I had finished the book but there were still the appendices.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
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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
They include people with inflamed appendixes, infected gall bladders, bowel obstructions and, more ominously, chest pains and stroke symptoms, according to these physicians and early research.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 19, 2020
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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