# bezoars

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bezoars/452327>\
**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [June 9, 2008, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bezoars/452327 "2008-06-09T15:29:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![tim314](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim314/32/3468_2.png) [@tim314](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tim314)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2008, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bezoars/452327/1 "2008-06-09T15:29:15Z")

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[original column](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5_104.html)

Cecil may not have laid eyes on one (at least, back in 1995) but if you google [images of “Bezoar pearls”](http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=bezoar%20pearls&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi) you can find some that look quite pretty. Simply googling [“bezoar”](http://images.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&q=bezoar&btnG=Search+Images) is not as appealing.

Apparently a [bezoar](http://www.answers.com/bezoar&r=67) can be any indegestible mass in the stomach or intestines. I guess it’s not surprising that some indigestible masses are prettier than others.

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**Author:** ![user\_hostile](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/user_hostile/32/474_2.png) [@user\_hostile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/user_hostile)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2008, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bezoars/452327/2 "2008-06-09T22:11:06Z")

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This is a [link](http://www.ispub.com/ostia/index.php?xmlPrinter=true&xmlFilePath=journals/ijs/vol13n2/bezoar.xml) to a 16 girl’ surgery for removal of a bezoar.

WARNING!–the pictures are a little graphic in the depiction of operation. Just so you know…