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 Secret Sunday: Septicaemic plague!

The septicaemic plague is caused by the Yersinia pestis bacteria, and is one of three types of the plague. Although septicaemic plague is rarely contracted person to person, it is a complication of the untreated bubonic plague - yet buboes do not develop. You may experience: chills, fever, weakness, abdomen pain, bleeding - which would form underneath the skin or organs, and thus, shock.

Mash-Up Monday: Urethra!

This long tube connects the bladder to the urinary meatus, which removes from the body.

Wednesday Words: Cecum!

According to Wikipedia:

In herbivores, the cecum stores food material where bacteria are able to break down the cellulose. This function no longer occurs in the human cecum (see vermiform appendix), so in humans it is simply a dead-end pouch forming a part of the large intestine.

- Geeker