appendix
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On April 9, the Sixers announced that Embiid had undergone emergency appendix surgery and would be out indefinitely.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 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
She had a hysterectomy last year to remove her womb alongside her appendix and is now paying privately for physiotherapy.
From BBC • Mar. 15, 2026
The appendix notes: “We need definitive RCT data to determine whether whole-fat dairy intake will improve the metabolic health of American children.”
From Slate • Jan. 28, 2026
Like Virginia Tucker before her, Dorothy Vaughan now presided over an appendix, still attached to the research operation but whose function had attenuated over time.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
Vocabulary lists containing appendix
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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Human Anatomy and Physiology - Introductory
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