grumbling appendix

Something like a grumbling appendix or suspected peritonitis or such-like.

'It could be a grumbling appendix.

The towering Quinn led the Irish attack with relish despite an overnight scare when he was in agony from a grumbling appendix.

The patient has just undergone a critical operation, and a well-meaning relative has been fobbed off with hints of a grumbling appendix.

She sends him to hospital thinking he might have a grumbling appendix but after testing Del the doctors prove this false and can't seem to find what's wrong him.

Augusta disliked Bates anyway--a tiresome girl, making the most of a grumbling appendix--and she loathed Private Patients.

It was just that she knew that there was something seriously wrong with her - something far more dramatic than a grumbling appendix or the normal after-effects of an operation.