Question

One of these objects is told “be quiet… lest Typhon seize you” on an amulet made of hematite, one of many amulets designed to control them. After a failed defense that hinged on Mary Glover owning a defective one of these objects, Edward Jorden wrote a treatise on their “Suffocation.” After he is betrayed by his daughters, King Lear feels one of these objects “[swell] up towards [his] heart.” Soranus of Ephesus contradicted (10[1])Aretaeus of Cappadocia’s view that these objects, which he called the “animal within the animal,” moved and released (-5[1])venomous (10[1])vapors. (10[1]-5[1])Joseph Campbell analogizes the (-5[1])tomb to one of these objects (-5[1])in a discussion of coming “full circle.” Hippocrates (-5[1])claimed (10[1])that these objects engaged in “wandering” (10[1]-5[2])that caused (-5[1])ailments (10[1])including (10[2])hysteria, (10[3]-5[1])which takes its name from the (10[1])Greek for this organ. For 10 points, Galen worried that what organ was suffocated by menstrual blood? (10[3])■END■ (10[6]0[1])

ANSWER: wombs [or uterus or uteri; accept wandering womb; accept hyster until “hysteria” is read; prompt on mother or The Suffocation of the Mother; prompt on matrix]
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2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y2295%0%41%126.19

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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
James StevensonMichigan AFlorida B7210
Eve FleisigUC Berkeley AIowa State A90-5
Vedul PalavajjhalaWUSTL BOhio State A9110
Quynh PhungPurdue AWUSTL A9210
Claire JonesChicago AVanderbilt A92-5
Cormac BeirneMcGill ARutgers B96-5
Geoffrey ChenCornell AChicago B102-5
Henry CafaroChicago CGeorgia Tech A110-5
Natan HoltzmanStanford ANYU A11110
Karsten RynearsonYale BIndiana A117-5
Forrest WeintraubColumbia BToronto A117-5
Tanis NielsenClaremont AMinnesota B11710
Joel MilesMinnesota ARutgers A119-5
Brad MacLaineTexas AUC Berkeley B12010
Arthur Delot-VilainYale AColumbia A12110
Alana DickeyVirginia ANorth Carolina A12110
Sanjay SrihariGeorgia Tech BBrown A12210
Richard NiuCornell BNorthwestern A122-5
Caleb KendrickMaryland APenn A12210
Grace LiuMIT APenn State A12210
Ashish SubramanianDuke AIllinois A12810
Joelle SmartRutgers AMinnesota A14510
John MarvinChicago BCornell A14510
Alex AkridgeIndiana AYale B14510
Collin AceRutgers BMcGill A14610
Andrew HannaVanderbilt AChicago A1460
Andrew SalijNorthwestern ACornell B14610
Raymond ChenToronto AColumbia B14610
Arya KarthikGeorgia Tech AChicago C14610
Conor ThompsonIowa State AUC Berkeley A14610
Sean DoyleHouston AHarvard A14610