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Abdominal Cocoon
A descriptive term for the fibrotic encasement of the entire small intestine in sclerosing peritonitis, a spontaneous idiopathic process in young women, which follows peritoneovenous shunting, practolol therapy, peritoneal dialysis, chemotherapy, or in which other unknown toxins stimulate fibroblastic proliferation and reactive fibrosis
Treatment Surgical lysis of adhesions and constricting bands

cocoon
A descriptor for the fibrotic encasement of the entire small intestine in sclerosing peritonitis, a spontaneous idiopathic process in young ♀, which follows peritoneovenous shunting, practolol therapy, peritoneal dialysis, chemotherapy, where unknown toxins may stimulate fibroblastic proliferation, reactive fibrosis


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The first phase of the project was completed in 2002 with the second recently finished and costing pounds 78 million and featuring a futuristic, eight-storey coccoon complex, which lets visitors see the institution's scientists at work.
Instead of forming a chrysalis, moths will spin an entire coccoon of silk around themselves and go through their pupa change inside its fluffy protection.
We are taking lunch of sublime pheasant and lordly sticky toffee pudding at Belvoir Castle, the wonderful coccoon she shares with husband, their four children and a heritage stretching back a thousand years.
 
 
 
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