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Nao himz haz shaven bak adn beeg hole adn teh plasty lampshayde coller on adn bumpin into awl teh furrnichas.
Well? - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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The z-plasty on my throat is a talisman protecting me from the temptations and sanctions of normalcy.
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The birthed calf-rotor could benefit from some plasty.
BSNYC Fiday Frun Quiz! BikeSnobNYC 2009
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In recurring or non-healing cases, a Z-plasty may be used to reduce shearing stress on the resulting scar.
Breaking: White House Faults Rush Limbaugh Over "Phony Soldiers" Comment 2009
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Feed it some lemonade, whip his mini-plasty-peen out, and have HOURS OF FUN!
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Angioplasty is where you actually take a little catheter, and you thread it through the groin, through a little artery in the groin, thread that up through the heart, and then sort of open up the blood vessels, sort of plasty it open, which is where the name comes from.
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But in the past few years, doctors have been offering and patients demanding what some call a miraculous treatment: vertebroplasty (pronounced vur-TEE-bro-plasty), in which a form of cement is injected into the broken spinal bone.
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Spinal Cement Draws Patients and Questions 2005
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VIEW FAVORITES yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Spinal Cement Draws Patients and Questions'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'But in the past few years, doctors have been offering and patients demanding what some call a miraculous treatment: vertebroplasty (pronounced vur-TEE-bro-plasty), in which a form of cement is injected into the broken spinal bone.'
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Spinal Cement Draws Patients and Questions 2005
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I begun to have a suspicion the stuff was made of sawdust with plasty of Paris fur frostin '.
The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation Harry Leon Wilson 1903
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The name is a blend of the word rhino (nose) and plasty (to shape).
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