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She had taken those opioid medications for years to manage chronic pain after her iliac nerve was mistakenly cut during surgery, she said.

A scan revealed that Schwartz’s iliac veins, which feed the inferior vena cava, the body’s largest vein that carries deoxygenated blood to the heart, were greatly enlarged, as were his vena cava and his aorta.

They discovered that his left iliac artery was completely blocked not far below his belly button.

It is home to the iliac blood vessels, which include major arteries branching off from the aorta.

Nabokov didn’t refer to Lolita’s hips, but her “iliac crests”; Tallent prefers “scapulae” to shoulder blades, “sclera” to the whites of the eyes.