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Word: diverticula (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Honest people sometimes develop throat pouches. The gullet muscles weaken, sag. Such diverticula may be very annoying. They interfere with eating. Food catches in them like waste in the trap of a sink, ferments and sends up fetid odors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pouched Throats | 3/21/1932 | See Source »

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