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Examples
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"Aorta" and "aneurism" held about as much significance for him as his perichondrium or the process of his stylomastoid.
The Valley of Silent Men James Oliver Curwood 1903
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Thurber mocked the note often placed at the end of New Yorker book reviews, 'The Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad, was first printed in this magazine in a shorter version under the title The Aorta of Darknes.'— from Remember Laughter: A Life of James Thurber, by Neil A. Grauer
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Thurber mocked the note often placed at the end of New Yorker book reviews, 'The Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad, was first printed in this magazine in a shorter version under the title The Aorta of Darknes.'— from Remember Laughter: A Life of James Thurber, by Neil A. Grauer
A Different Stripe: 2008
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Thurber mocked the note often placed at the end of New Yorker book reviews, 'The Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad, was first printed in this magazine in a shorter version under the title The Aorta of Darknes.'— from Remember Laughter: A Life of James Thurber, by Neil A. Grauer
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Because of the precarious placement of the tumor on her Aorta artery, they feared a removal could result in a rupture to the valve and cause a major bleed.
R. B. Stuart: "Sister Soldier: A Chronicle of Life After Iraq" - Part I 2009
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Diane did not waken again until after the Cardiologist and his team had threaded the tiny angiogram balloon into her femoral artery and up into the Aorta, then into her heart.
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I just had to get re-instated so I could see my cardio vascular surgeon about a blockage in my leg, they caused when they did a bypass from my Aorta to my femeral arteries in my legs, 10 years ago.
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(In hindsight, she says, it was probably her Aorta having spasms.)
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The doctor's project she'll be in treatment and recovery for four to five months, and at that time her Oncologist will take another CT scan and if it's still present, he'll attempt another surgery to remove the tumor from the Aorta.
R. B. Stuart: "Sister Soldier: A Chronicle of Life After Iraq" - Part I 2009
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What they had to leave behind -- were three tumors, one wrapped around her colon, her Aorta artery, and another around her kidney.
R. B. Stuart: "Sister Soldier: A Chronicle of Life After Iraq" - Part I 2009
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