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

[Jonathan Lighter]

Est autem vagina loquens in Diderot, "Bijoux indiscrets" (1748), ch. 47.
(Cave! Debes praetera plus quam XVIII annos habere!)

Anates etiam Romani "tetrinniebant."

JL

On Mon, Jan 2, 2023 at 3:43 PM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

>  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
>> >
>> >
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>> > 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.
>> > >
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>> 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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