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The part of the alimentary canal between the stomach and the anus
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intestine
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES large intestine small intestine COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE large ▪ Methane gas is regarded as a harmless byproduct of fermentation in the large intestine of man. ▪ Lipkin proposed that upward expansion of the ...
Wiktionary
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Etymology 1 n. 1 (context anatomy often pluralized English) The alimentary canal of an animal through which food passes after having passed all stomachs. 2 One of certain subdivisions of this part of the alimentary canal, such as the small intestine or ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., from Middle French intestin (14c.) or directly from Latin intestinum "a gut," in plural, "intestines, bowels," noun use of neuter of adjective intestinus âinward, internalâ (see intestines ). Distinction of large and small intestines in ...
WordNet
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n. the part of the alimentary canal between the stomach and the anus [syn: bowel , gut ]
Usage examples of intestine.
Zonaras states that the fire which took place at Constantinople in the reign of Emperor Basiliscus consumed, among other valuable remains of antiquity, a copy of the Iliad and Odyssey, and some other ancient poems, written in letters of gold upon material formed of the intestines of a serpent.
On this account they should not be eaten when at all old and hard by persons of slow digestion, because apt to lodge in the intestines, and to become entangled in their caecal pouch, or in its appendix.
The large intestine is about five feet in length, and is divided into the Caecum, Colon, and Rectum.
It is from one to two inches in length, and is found attached by its head to the mucous membrane of the caecum, and, in rare instances, in the colon and small intestine.
This intestine is about five feet in length, and consists of the caecum, colon, and rectum.
The caecum gradually blends into the second division of the large intestine, called the colon.
In cases of hospital gangrene of the extremities, and in cases of gangrene of the intestines, heart clots and fibrous coagula were universally present.
In cases of hospital gangrene of the extremities, and in cases of gangrene of the intestines, heart-clots and firm coagula were universally present.
The commonest form is that known as catarrhal jaundice, due to an inflammation or catarrh of the bile-duct which prevents the flow of bile from the liver and gallbladder into the intestine.
Molineux made his way from the computerised intestines of the command centre, up in the lift to the waiting policeman.
The doctors, their white robes dripping red, stabbed enthusiastically at the mass of cow intestines in the fake body and tried to laugh insanely.
Quoted by Ashhurst, Hunter recorded a case of gunshot wound, in which, after penetrating the stomach, bowels, and diaphragm the ball lodged in the thoracic cavity, causing no difficulty in breathing until shortly before death, and even then the dyspnea was mechanical--from gaseous distention of the intestines.
The hot smell of intestines, finally freed by a deeper incision, cut through the chill night air and the scent of rain as they captured them in one of the baskets.
The rectal tongue is usually the longest, normally kept coiled where a human keeps his intestines.
The organs of digestion are the Mouth, Teeth, Tongue, Salivary Glands, Pharynx, Esophagus, the Stomach and the Intestines, with their glands, the Liver, Pancreas, Lacteals, and the Thoracic Duct.