Miller-Abbott tube

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A tube used for intestinal decompression.

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Twelve-year-old dance prodigy Maddie Ziegler has suffered the wrath of Dance Moms tyrant Abby Lee Miller.
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Miller traces his irreverent and subversive streak to a psychedelic experience during the particularly sweltering summer of 1991.
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“I had started to become disillusioned with the norms of how people put together social structures,” recalls Miller.
DJ Spooky Wants You To Question Everything You Know About Music, Technology, and Philosophy|Oliver Jones|December 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
No Emmas, no Ishmaels, no Pips, no Daisies (Miller or Buchanan).
What Would Jane Eyre Sext?|Jennie Yabroff|December 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST

This month a judge intervened and granted a 30-day temporary stay on police action against Abbott.
How Dickens and Scrooge Saved Christmas|Clive Irving|December 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Drone: the largest tube of a bag-pipe, giving forth a dull heavy tone.
Gulliver's Travels|Jonathan Swift
Should the vapor not condense well, the test-tube may be immersed in a glass of cold water.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
Major Abbott and his brother officers, trying to keep their men loyal, stood fast and listened to the distant turmoil in the city.
The Red Year|Louis Tracy
For comparison, the gas may be passed through a test-tube containing an equal amount of distilled water.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
At once cover the mouth of the tube with a filter-paper cap moistened with saturated aqueous solution of silver nitrate (1:1).
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd