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catheter

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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

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winning (a prize)

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Werner Forssmann

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medical intern; resident

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vena cava

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right atrium

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urine

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insertion; incorporation; infixing

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hospital; clinic; doctor's office; doctor's surgery; infirmary

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discharge; dismissal

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years later

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Nobel Prize

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so far as

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year; age; years; past one's prime; old age

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Michael Smith (chemist)

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laboratory testing bench; laboratory table; subject of an experiment; (human) guinea pig

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bee; wasp; hornet

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to pierce; to stab; to sting; to bite; to sew; to stitch; to pole (a boat)

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nostril; nostrils

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physiology

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entomology; study of insects

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prize; award

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10^12; 1,000,000,000,000; trillion; sign; omen; indication

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proud; haughty; arrogant

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example; simile; metaphor; allegory

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Ig Nobel Prize

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Nobel Prize in Chemistry

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Canadian (person)

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different person; another person; someone else; changed man

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before long; even now

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prudence; discretion; thought

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to be sufficient; to be enough; to be worth doing; to be worthy of; to do (the job); to serve

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matter; thing; affair; circumstance

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to take a breath; to take a short rest

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backpack

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charge; custody; safekeeping; deposit; storage

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to work (for); to be employed (at); to serve (as); to act (as); to conduct a religious service

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chemistry

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majority; more than half; most (of); mostly; largely; mainly

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steel manufacture

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addition agent

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10,000 yen

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1000 yen

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to be wildly different; to be on a completely different scale; to be in a different league; to be poles apart; to stand no comparison; (lit.) to be on a different order of magnitude

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sudden price jump; steep price rise

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highly priced; expensive; valuable; costly

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purity (of a substance)

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least; lowest; worst; awful; horrible; at the very least

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four nines (i.e. 99.99%)

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