[Ads-l] A (too?) late candidate for QOTY, medical division

[Laurence Horn]

Yes, but the vagina dentata is one thing. The vagina loquens, ambulans et
latrans is something else again.
(Yes, I realize the last one involves barking rather than quacking; I don't
know the Latin for "quack", v.)

LH

On Mon, Jan 2, 2023 at 12:41 PM Carl W. Thiel <
000002029019beff-dmarc-request at listserv.uga.edu> wrote:

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> On Thursday, December 29, 2022, 05:45:46 AM EST, Carl W. Thiel <
> rootinteuton at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> There are two movies of which I'm aware wherein a vagina takes on the
> attributes of another orifice:
> "Chatterbox!" (1977) about a woman with a vagina that talks and
> "Teeth" (2007), which literally exemplifies the myth of the vagina dentata.
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> Carl William Thiel
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> On Thursday, December 29, 2022, 12:00:31 AM EST, ADS-L automatic digest
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> Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2022 08:08:30 -0500
> From: Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
> Subject: Re: A (too?) late candidate for QOTY, medical division
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> In my day, "talking" alone would have been thought sensational.
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> JL
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> On Tue, Dec 27, 2022 at 10:07 PM Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
> wrote:
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> > Or the “stop that simile” division...
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> > From an article in today’s NYT, on a new process developed by Dr. Don
> > Ingber, a Harvard bioengineer, for a ‘vagina on a chip’ to help in
> treating
> > bacterial infections.
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> https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/08/science/vagina-chip-bacterial-vaginosis.html
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> > The “vagina on a chip” was made from vaginal cells donated by two women.
> > The model was grown inside of silicone rubber chips the size of a stick
> of
> > gum, forming channels that were responsive to fluctuating estrogen levels
> > and bacteria. The chip successfully mimicked key features of the vaginal
> > microbiome, the swarming communities of bacteria that play a crucial role
> > in the organ’s health, the study found.
> > The chip is more realistic than other laboratory models of the organ, Dr.
> > Ingber said: “This walks, talks, quacks like a human vagina.”
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