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bag
1. any of various measures of quantity, such as a bag containing 1 hundredweight of coal
2. any pouch or sac forming part of the body of an animal, esp the udder of a cow
3. Hunting the quantity of quarry taken in a single hunting trip or by a single hunter
bag [bag]
(engineering)
A flexible cover used in bag molding.
A container made of paper, plastic, or cloth without rigid walls to transport or store material.
bag, sack
A quantity of portland cement: 94 lb in the United States, 87.5 lb in Canada, 112 lb (50.8 kg) in the United Kingdom, and 50 kg in most countries using the metric system.
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Within a few weeks Kirstie was on the operating table where 95% of her large bowel was removed - a length of between four to five feet - and after further surgery within two days she was fitted with a temporary ileostomy bag to allow her bowel to recover.
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Spratley, for example, spared his readers no details in his meticulous accounts of how he coped with a constantly leaking ileostomy bag.
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Seven months of chemotherapy followed, causing rashes, mouth ulcers, nausea and hair-loss, and he had an ileostomy bag fitted.
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