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
Her pain was so bad at one point in her late teens that doctors took out her perfectly healthy appendix, believing it was the source of her agony.
From BBC ● Jun. 1, 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
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
Last year when Ma’s appendix broke, when her sick leave was gone, we got bread, peanut butter, and applesauce.
From "Ghost Boys" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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 book but there were still the appendices.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
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
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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