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Land of Typos, part ouch

From a recently edited scientific manuscript:

Expansion of the tested material occurred when the testes were held in an NaOH solution.

Those poor, poor testes.

Needless to say, the author intended to use the word tests. His use of testes instead represents one of the classic categories of typos that slip through spellchecker: the Accidentally Naughty Sentence.

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