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A new idea, imported from the West, is to take the galls and other strange growths that occur on tree trunks and carve them into a witty or grotesque design, using the natural shape.
Some of these are ... hauntingly familiar growths, like catafalque trees and hangman trees, as Terry Dowling put it.
Analysis of X-chromosome inactivation in female patients with multiple head and neck cancers shows that distinct tumors arise from regional clonal growths of phenotypically normal, mutated preneoplastic cells [ 3 4 5 ] , a phenomenon similar to that also observed in liver cancer patients with cirrhosis [ 6 ] . Long-term smoking and alcohol abuse are strongly associated with these clonal growths in the upper aerodigestive tract (reviewed in [ 7 ] ).
Despite suffering stomach cancer, perforations in his lungs and fingernail-like growths on his palms, wrists, and shoulders, Harding was refused a disability pension; Energy Department officials maintained that Harding's health problems were the result of smoking cigarettes and eating "country ham."