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appendix

[uh-pen-diks] / əˈpɛn dɪks /


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When I was 14, the doctor removed what was left of my appendix.

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

Smith’s great tome runs to 976 pages in my Modern Library edition, including bibliography, index and a 2½-page statistical appendix on the wasteful subsidies paid to the Scottish exporters of herring.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 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

I still have my appendix, and any number of other organs that might burst or sputter in the empty wilds.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

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

“In the end, the social media findings were included into other parts of the report and appendixes, a decision made by the Chairman in consultation with the Committee.”

From Washington Post ● Jan. 17, 2023

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

Biobanks store appendixes, ovaries, skin, sphincters, testicles, fat, even foreskins from most circumcisions.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot


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