Etymology
Origin of pipestem
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A similar change in major arteries is often seen in the aged: the muscular wall hardens so much that the vessels are called "pipestem arteries."
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At Mount Zion Hospital, he is still a human disaster, his knee the size of a grapefruit in his frail, pipestem leg.
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LeMay almost worked up a pleased smile at this achievement,-then nearly bit through his pipestem when he heard that his high-bombers had been used, as they were never intended to be, in low, front-line support.
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He appears before his public with his pipestem legs encased in garish blue pants, with embroidered silver guitars running down the seams.
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Fu Shan took the ivory pipestem from his mouth, and spoke placid and squeaking.
From The Belted Seas by Arthur Willis Colton
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