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

[Jonathan Lighter]

 Tetrissitare. (Suetonius.)

JL

On Mon, Jan 2, 2023 at 2:45 PM Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:

> 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:
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Carl William Thiel
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thursday, December 29, 2022, 12:00:31 AM EST, ADS-L automatic digest
> > system <listserv at listserv.uga.edu> wrote:
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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
> >
> > In my day, "talking" alone would have been thought sensational.
> >
> > JL
> >
> > On Tue, Dec 27, 2022 at 10:07 PM Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Or the “stop that simile” division...
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/08/science/vagina-chip-bacterial-vaginosis.html
> > >
> > > 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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