The Collaborative International Dictionary
Intestinal \In*tes"ti*nal\, a. [Cf. F. intestinal.] Of or pertaining to the intestines of an animal; as, the intestinal tube; intestinal digestion; intestinal enzymes.
Intestinal canal. Same as Intestine, n.
Intestinal worm (Zo["o]l.), any species of helminth living in the intestinal canal of any animal. The species are numerous.
Usage examples of "intestinal canal".
But inexplicable complications supervened, and his father died suddenly of a haemorrhage of the intestinal canal.
This was further illustrated by the important fact that hospital gangrene, or a disease resembling it in all essential respects, attacked the intestinal canal of patients laboring under ulceration of the bowels, although there were no local manifestations of gangrene upon the surface of the body.
In cases of ulceration of the mucous membrane of the intestinal canal, the fibrinous element of the blood appeared to be increased.
Dried seasoned bark from one to twoyears old alone should be used, as the freshlystripped bark acts as an irritant poison on the gastro-intestinal canal.
Bennett found the undigested coats of the grains in the intestinal canal of polleneating Diptera.
The intestinal canal of Paris has been rebuilt anew, and, as we have said, increased more than tenfold within a quartier of a century.
After a slow and tiresome shuffling along an endless passage, which ran winding through the palace like the intestinal canal of the old structure, he arrived at a low door opening into a hall, which, from his tall stature, he was enabled to overlook above the undulating heads of the crowd.