No piece of punctuation, though, stirs people up more than the humble semicolon. Too demure to be a colon but more assertive than a comma, the semicolon was introduced in 1494 by Venetian printer and ...

Introduction In 2014, nearly 100,000 people will be diagnosed with colon cancer in the United States, 1 and most will undergo colectomy. While laparoscopy has become the preferred approach to ...

There's one punctuation mark Gen Z wants you to stop using. Here's what it is—and why it's falling out of favor.

The risk was observed after minimal use, and was greatest in the proximal colon and with antibiotics with anti-anaerobic activity. In contrast, an inverse association was detected between antibiotic ...

Lung and colon cancer detection through histopathological images is a critical application of deep learning in medical diagnostics. In this study, we utilized the LC25000 dataset to classify lung and ...

Ross explained that doctors removed 7 inches of his colon following the diagnosis. “Now I have a semicolon,” he joked during the segment. He also recalled the moment his oncologist broke the news ...

Colon (introduces): "The presentation covered three topics: market analysis, competitor research, and strategic recommendations." Semicolon (connects): "The meeting ran late; everyone was exhausted." ...

Not only are semicolons evidently becoming more rare, but young people are less aware of how to use them, according to a ...

Objective To examine whether preadmission glucocorticoid use increases the risk of anastomotic leakage after colon and rectal cancer resections. Design A population-based cohort study. Setting Denmark ...

Reaction monitoring mass spectrometry has emerged as a powerful tool for targeted detection and quantification of proteins in clinical samples. Here, we report the use of gel electrophoresis for ...