undergo
The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
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un·der·go / ˌəndərˈgō/ • v. (-goes; past -went; past part. -gone) [tr.] experience or be subjected to (something, typically something unpleasant, painful, or arduous): the baby underwent a life-saving brain operation.
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HOME REPAIR GRAN IN BRAIN OP FEARS.
Newspaper article from: Shields Gazette (South Shields, England); 5/23/2006; 338 words
; A PENSIONER underwent a five-hour brain operation after collapsing while her home was being revamped. A PENSIONER underwent a five-hour brain operation after collapsing while her home was being revamped. Agnes McCaffery, 74, of Hebburn, became...
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National headliners.
Magazine article from: Jet; 1/12/2004; 146 words
; ...her job recently to return to her husband in California ... Famous Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon Ben Carson participated in a brain operation in the upcoming movie Stuck On You...UN Association President John C. Whitehead and businessman J. Bruce Llewellyn will...
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Generous bosses help save coma boy's life.
Newspaper article from: The News (Portsmouth, England); 1/2/2007; 369 words
; TWO big-hearted bosses have saved the life of a desperately ill young boy after paying for a brain operation. Four-year-old Terence Gil Laganson suffers from a deadly brain condition and had slumped into a coma, with his life hanging by...
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United star in brain op shock.
Newspaper article from: Ballymena Times (Ballymena, Northern Ireland); 11/5/2007; 257 words
; BALLYMENA United goalkeeper Sean O'Neill this week began his recovery from a vital brain operation. The teenage stopper was rushed to hospital last week after suffering from headaches and was diagnosed with fluid between his brain...
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Widow's despair at dog thefts.
Newspaper article from: Lancashire Evening Post (Preston, England); 12/14/2006; 148 words
; ...and garden kennels at her farm home in Bamber Bridge. Mrs Williams, 67, had recently returned home from hospital after a brain operation and was delivering Christmas presents in Southport when the thieves struck. Mrs Williams, a B&Q sales assistant, has...
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Dr. Ben Carson: top surgeon's life-and-death struggle with prostate cancer.(Interview)
Magazine article from: Ebony; 1/1/2003; 700+ words
; BEN Carson will never forget that day last June. The famed pediatric neurosurgeon was in the midst of a delicate brain operation when a nurse handed him the telephone. On the other end of the line was his doctor. What he was told would change...
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(sound recording reviews)
Magazine article from: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine); 12/22/1998; ; 278 words
; ...virtually nobody saw and everybody can sing in their sleep. The quasi-autobiographical saga of a composer facing and surviving a brain operation lasted for only a limited run at Lincoln Center last summer, and Graciela Daniele's spiffy production attracted most of...
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Brain op appeal: Help us plead Southam family.
Newspaper article from: Leamington Spa Courier (Leamington Spa, England); 6/26/2008; 367 words
; Fundraisers hoping to raise [pounds sterling]40,000 to pay for a brain operation for a Southam man need more support. Family and friends of Dean Norris are desperate to generate enough cash to enable the 28-year-o...
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BAHRAIN: EMERGENCY BRAIN OPERATION PERFORMED ON YOUNGSTER.(Brief Article)
Newspaper article from: IPR Strategic Business Information Database; 2/29/2000; 54 words
; According to the Akhbar Al-Khaleej newspaper, the medical staff of the brain and neurology ward at the Al-Salmaniya medical center performed emergency brain surgery on a 16-year old Bahraini youth who suffered a sever brain hemorrhage. Brain surgeon Dr. Tah A-Darazi commented that the youth
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Civil rights activist, Minister Fred Shuttlesworth retiring.(NATIONAL REPORT)(Brief article)
Magazine article from: Jet; 1/16/2006; 304 words
; ...m retiring from the church. I'm recuperating. I'm feeling pretty good, Shuttlesworth told Jet. You know when you have a brain operation, you [go about] a subtle way of doing things ... I won't take as many engagements as I have had ... It's about time for...
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undergo
Book article from: Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes
undergo • aglow , ago, alow, although, apropos, art nouveau, Bamako, Bardot, beau, Beaujolais Nouveau, below, bestow, blow...soh, sow, status quo, stow, Stowe, strow, tally-ho, though, throw, tic-tac-toe, to-and-fro, toe, touch-and-go, tow, trow, undergo, undersow, voe, whacko, whoa, wo, woe, Xuzhou, yo, ...
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Radionuclides in the Ocean
Book article from: Water:Science and Issues
...significant amount of radioactive elements that undergo spontaneous radioactive decay and produce...ocean. Each one of these substances will undergo a spontaneous decay at a well-known rate...must pass for half of a group of atoms to undergo decay. Radioactivity is often expressed...
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mill
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
mill go (or put someone) through the mill undergo (or cause someone to undergo) an unpleasant experience. the mill cannot grind with the water that is past an opportunity that has been missed cannot then be used; proverbial saying, early 17th century...
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Metamorphism
Book article from: World of Earth Science
...physical and chemical changes that rocks undergo when exposed to conditions of high temperature...combination thereof. Rocks that have undergone metamorphism exhibit chemical and structural...individual grains. Recrystallization of a rock undergoing directed pressure typically results in...
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ageing
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body
...eventually, death. Why the body should undergo this spectrum of degenerative changes...cells from short-lived mammalian species undergo fewer divisions in culture than cells...acceleration of many features of ageing, undergo markedly fewer divisions than cells from...
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