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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
intestine
noun
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large intestine
small intestine
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■ 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 proliferative compartment of the crypts of the large intestine occurs before adenoma development.
▪ Cryptosporidium has been detected in the proximal small intestine, the large intestine and the rectum in man.
▪ The oesophagus, stomach, small and large intestines were macroscopically normal.
▪ No dietary factors have been shown to affect colonisation of the large intestine with methanogens.
▪ In the other 14 patients, barium studies of the small and large intestine did not show any mechanical obstruction.
normal
▪ It thus seems that a histologically normal intestine is a prerequisite for adequate carnitine absorption.
small
▪ In the rat small intestine, many drugs are acetylated and excreted into the lumen.
▪ As the wall of the small intestine comes into view, you notice that it looks furry.
▪ Discussion Coeliac disease probably represents an aberrant immune response by antigen specific T cells of the small intestine to certain cereal peptides.
▪ People who lack a pancreas, a second kidney, a small intestine, may not run marathons, but they live.
▪ The degree of amyloid deposition, however, was greatest in the small intestine.
▪ Once the cysts reach the small intestine, trophozoites are released.
▪ Normal motility of the small intestine in the fasting state is characterised by the cyclical appearance of the migrating motor complex.
▪ They reproduce rapidly, attach to the wall of the small intestine and stay there.
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▪ As the wall of the small intestine comes into view, you notice that it looks furry.
▪ Each day, 7-10 litres of water enter the small intestine.
▪ In agreement with our findings, they showed that the rat intestine secreted fluid on day 5 after parasite administration.
▪ Montgomery etal isolated cells from 18 day fetal rat intestine by trypsin dissociation.
▪ So far two of 10 patients with a diagnosis of Crohn's disease have already developed recurrence in the small intestine.
▪ The degree of amyloid deposition, however, was greatest in the small intestine.
▪ The ultrastructure of the intestine was examined in seven patients.
▪ The village paths soon became covered with a mass of bodies, brains, blood and intestines.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Intestine

Intestine \In*tes"tine\, a. [L. intestinus, fr. intus on the inside, within, fr. in in: cf. F. intestine. See In.]

  1. Internal; inward; -- opposed to external.

    Epilepsies, fierce catarrhs, Intestine stone and ulcers.
    --Milton.

  2. Internal with regard to a state or country; domestic; not foreign; -- applied usually to that which is evil; as, intestine disorders, calamities, etc.

    Hoping here to end Intestine war in heaven, the arch foe subdued.
    --Milton.

    An intestine struggle . . . between authority and liberty.
    --Hume.

  3. Depending upon the internal constitution of a body or entity; subjective.

    Everything labors under an intestine necessity.
    --Cudworth.

  4. Shut up; inclosed. [R.]
    --Cowper.

Intestine

Intestine \In*tes"tine\, n.; pl. Intestines. [L. intestinum: cf. F. intestin. See Intestine, a.]

  1. (Anat.) That part of the alimentary canal between the stomach and the anus. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus.

  2. pl. The bowels; entrails; viscera.

    Large intestine (Human Anat. & Med.), the lower portion of the bowel, terminating at the anus. It is adapted for the retention of fecal matter, being shorter, broader, and less convoluted than the small intestine; it consists of three parts, the c[ae]cum, colon, and rectum.

    Small intestine (Human Anat. & Med.), the upper portion of the bowel, in which the process of digestion is practically completed. It is narrow and contorted, and consists of three parts, the duodenum, jejunum, and ileum.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
intestine

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 “inward, internal” (see intestines). Distinction of large and small intestines in Middle English was made under the terms gross and subtle. The word also was used as an adjective in English from 1530s with a sense of “internal, domestic, civil.”

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intestine

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 large intestine in human beings. Etymology 2

a. 1 domestic; taking place within a given country or region. 2 (context obsolete English) internal. 3 (context obsolete rare English) Depending upon the internal constitution of a body or entity; subjective. 4 (context obsolete rare English) Shut up; enclosed.

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intestine

n. the part of the alimentary canal between the stomach and the anus [syn: bowel, gut]

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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.