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• stair: A newly wed couple emerges, descends some stairs.

• aorta: I have also had surgery for a dilated descending aorta at the site of a Coarctation of Aorta ( CoA ) repair.

• colon: Splenic flexure: That portion of the colon where the transverse and the descending colon meet, below the spleen.

• shaft: The State of the Pit At midnight there were many men present ready on the least call for volunteers to descend the shaft.

• staircase: He sauntered out upon the landing, and descended the staircase.

• gully: Dislocation of shoulder 28/03 Cwm Penmachno North Side 1 Scrambling Party descending gully attempting to by pass waterfall.

Preposition: on

• la: Will launch the hold 'em event at descended on las.

Preposition: into

• farce: It's very sad that a fan club has descended into a bizarre farce due to the actions of a few people.

• chaos: We know the consequences - the system descended into chaos within weeks.

• cliche: The moment a script seems to be about to descend into cliche, Whedon normally pulls the rug out from under your feet.

• hell: He descended into hell; the third day He arose again from the dead.

• madness: The third narrator, Jane Boleyn, is a Gregory specialty, a chilling portrait of amorality and self-delusion descending into madness.

• parody: Maxwell Martin's portrayal never descends into parody and never asserts an overweening superiority; it is simply well judged and superbly executed.

Modifying Another Word

• steeply: Turn right at a waymarked junction on a footpath which descends steeply to the River Severn.

Preposition: from

• ancestor: The motto expressed Darwin's belief that all life was descended from a single ancestor.

• heaven: Jade Jade is regarded by the Chinese as a stone descended from heaven.

• summit: The four men all in their 30's from the Dundee area got lost as they descended from the summit of Ben Macdui, Aberdeenshire.

• immigrant: All but 300,000 Australians descended from immigrants who began arriving with the settlement of British convicts in 1788.

• sky: On this night also The Lady of the West descended from the sky to teach the Emperor Wu the secret of immortality.

Preposition: by

• parachute: This typical wartime Secret Memorandum was intended to safeguard allied airmen descending by parachute over Fife.