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  • noun anatomy The group of fibers that form a sling for the rectum.

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  • It was 2:30 A.M. Sunday and Ivan, drawing on a clinical question posed in Snell about the correlation between incontinence and inadvertent destruction of the puborectalis muscle during surgery, was once more availing himself of Table 28’s fully hemisectioned pelvis.

    Body of Knowledge Steve Giegerich 2001

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