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"Ex-county man ready to go home after double-hand transplant" (via Fortean Times)
Boing Boing 2009
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Paris' Public Hospital authority says a team of doctors has performed the world's first simultaneous partial-face and double-hand transplant.
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Paris' Public Hospital authority says a team of doctors has performed the world's first simultaneous partial-face and double-hand transplant.
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A double-hand scoop and the waters roll back where his hand has removed.
Cavern-carver dudemanflab 2007
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The marks encompassed the entire neck; much too long and broad to be a single - or double-hand span.
The Big Nowhere Ellroy, James, 1948- 1988
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We had a siege of the Fort Bombadero, inaccessible, and with mortars firing double-hand grenades.
Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 1 Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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Doctors transplanted not only a face but also gave her a double-hand transplant.
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A double-hand transplant done at the same time as her face transplant, from the same donor, failed after she suffered a post-surgical bout of pneumonia that caused her blood pressure to fall, so the hands were deprived of sufficient blood at a crucial time.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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Then there's double-hand poker, which can be exciting or confounding: Each player is dealt seven cards and uses them to form two hands, a five-card hand and a two-card hand.
SFGate: Don Asmussen: Bad Reporter Michael Shapiro 2011
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WARSAW, Poland | A Polish soldier who received a double-hand transplant earlier this month is doing well, and the operation has been a success, a doctor involved in the transplant said today.
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