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People only have one appendix to start with. Did you mean appendage?

No, that's what I meant, but said in a facetious way. If someone is complaining about lower right abdominal pain that could be the appendix, when lower left would not be.

Ah I get it now. Sorry for the density.

Don’t apologize; we all benefit from a good chuckle.

Unless the patient is one of the 0.01% - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situs_inversus

Perhaps they have -1 now.

Either that or my recent C excursions have me thinking in buffer overruns and index errors.

The official recordbooks will now show that patient is officially the first to lose an appendix but gain a preface.

That would be two less than they should have? Unless you're commenting on its uselessness that they 'should' have zero despite one being normal?

Last I heard, there's an idea that it might help recolonize the gut with good flora after infections and such.

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