ectopic pregnancy
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ectopic pregnancy ‘Ectopic’, from the Greek, means out of place. Fertilization usually occurs in one of the Fallopian tubes, and the embryo proceeds to be implanted in the uterus. Occasionally it becomes lodged in the tube, and may continue to grow there, with consequences which are fatal to the pregnancy and may be hazardous for the mother because of internal bleeding. Much more rarely, an ovum can lose its way between the ovary and the receiving end of the tube, wandering into the peritoneal cavity, and ascending sperm can even find and fertilize it there — again a hopeless future for the embryo. The signs and symptoms of ectopic pregnancy are usually evident as early as, or even before, the first missed menstrual period, so prompt diagnosis and operative treatment can prevent major trouble. The inevitable loss of one of the tubes reduces the chances of subsequent conception.
Sheila Jennett
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urogenital system.
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Sentimental misogyny and medicine in 'Humphry Clinker.' (English author Tobias George Smollett's 18th-century novel 'The Expedition of Humphry Clinker')
Magazine article from: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900; 6/22/1997; ; 700+ words
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Smollett's Representation and Critique of the Traffic in Women: a Narrative Strand in Roderick Random.(Tobias George Smollett)(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Philological Quarterly; 6/22/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...degradation is exceptional, the scenario itself is common enough: we shall see something like it in the fate of Miss Williams in Smollett's Roderick Random. In The Way of the World Fainall, learning of his wife's infidelity, offers his own version: Lady...
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Smollett vs. Hawkesworth: the trouble with 'Telemachus.' (Tobias Smollett and John Hawkesworth)
Magazine article from: ANQ; 7/1/1994; ; 700+ words
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 "The Mirror (London, England)")
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Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England); 10/11/2003; 541 words
; ...refurbishing a statue of Smollett and building a protective...the campaign to give Smollett his rightful place in...to name him either." Smollett, born in 1721, is known...and Sir Walter Scott. George Orwell said he was...know their heritage. Tobias Smollet is our local...
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Books: INDECENT PLEASURES Will a new biography spur a revival of interest in the works of Tobias Smollett? D J Taylor hopes so
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday; 8/24/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...melancholy faces." Tobias Smollett (1721-1771) was a...Random, the hero of Smollett's first novel, apostrophises...arrival in the London of George II, "and I suppose...less, is the authentic Smollett atmosphere. The plot...
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Smollett's 'Peregrine Pickle' revisited.
Magazine article from: Studies in the Novel; 9/22/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...a Critical Edition of Smollett's Peregrine Pickle...Pickle for the Works of Tobias Smollett, published by the University...Mark Akenside, and George Lyttelton, the first...to the second edition Smollett levels various charges...
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Smollett's Scots and sodomites: British masculinity in Roderick Random.(The Adventures of Roderick Random)
Magazine article from: Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation; 6/22/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...Briton (1762-3), Tobias Smollett bitterly declared "Scotchman...detestable." (1) Smollett intended this polemical...improbable affair with George III's mother, the...Captain Whiffle. However, Smollett suggests that the Scot...
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Smollett's Scots and Sodomites: British Masculinity in Roderick Random
Magazine article from: The Eighteenth Century; 7/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...Briton (1762-3), Tobias Smollett bitterly declared "Scotchman...and detestable."1 Smollett intended this polemical...improbable affair with George Ill's mother, the...Captain Whiffle. However, Smollett suggests that the Scot...
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Tobias who? The local hero that the locals have never heard of; Plan to spend [pounds sterling]165,000 on forgotten literary great is branded a 'waste'.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 10/11/2003; 700+ words
; ...Dickens, while George Orwell hailed...language'. But in Tobias Smollett's home town...proud of. This Tobias guy is certainly...Gibson defended the Smollett project saying...private trust. Tobias Smollett was born to a...
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The greatest forgotten Scottish novelist; Books: Critic's choice.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 9/5/2003; 700+ words
; ...pounds sterling]20) GEORGE ORWELL described Tobias Smollett as Scotland's best novelist...that he was Scottish. Tobias George Smollett was born at Dalquhurn...in the resurrection of Tobias George Smollett, both as a novelist and...
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Tobias George Smollett
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Tobias George Smollett Of the major 18th-century novelists and satirists, the British author and physician Tobias George Smollett (1721-1771) is most clearly identified with the picaresque...
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Smollett, Tobias George
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Smollett, Tobias George (1721–71), attended Glasgow...himself up as a surgeon in London. Smollett's first publication, in 1746, was...appear in 1761. In 1762–3 Smollett wrote and edited the Tory journal The...
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Smollett, Tobias (1721–1771)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...x2013; 1771) SMOLLETT, TOBIAS (1721 – 1771), Scottish...translator, and periodicals editor. Smollett is perhaps best known as the author...traveling in Europe. He was born Tobias George Smollett in Dumbarton, the son of a Scottish...
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Rivington, James (1724-1802)
Book article from: American Eras
...Rivington was a spy in the pay of George Washington. Origins. The son of...Fletcher. Together they printed Tobias Smollett’s History of England...concerning the Patriots, causing George Washington himself to complain...
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Macaulay, Catharine
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Society and Wrote History In 1760 Macaulay married Dr. George Macaulay a Scottish physician who lived in London...circles and introduced his wife to such famous men as Tobias Smollett, William Hunter, and Thomas Hollis, all of whom were...
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