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Shut up; inclosed.

That part of the alimentary canal between the stomach and the anus. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus.

The bowels; entrails; viscera.

Internal; inward; - opposed to external.

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

Shut up; inclosed.

That part of the alimentary canal between the stomach and the anus. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus.

The bowels; entrails; viscera.

Internal; inward; - opposed to external.

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

The section of the alimentary canal from the STOMACH to the ANUS. It includes the LARGE INTESTINE and SMALL INTESTINE.

Internal; not foreign; as, an intestine war.

The bowels.

The digestive tube passing from the stomach to the anus. It is divided primarily into the small i. (intestinum tenue) and the large i. (intestinum crassum); the small i. is further divided arbitrarily into duodenum, jejunum, and ileum; the large i. is divided into cecum and appendix, ascending, transverse, descending, and sigmoid colon, and rectum. The duodenum is separated from the stomach by the pylorus or pyloric valve, and the ileum is separated from the cecum by the ileocecal valve, valvula coli.

Coiled abdominal digestive canal, with rectal termination.

Internal: contained in the animal body: domestic: not foreign.

(usually in pl.) The part of the alimentary canal that lies between the stomach and the anus.

A bowel.

Internal; domestic.

The alimentary canal; bowel; usually in the plural.

Contained internally in the animal body; domestic; not foreign.

That part of the alimentary canal from pylorus to anus, or the part corresponding to this in lower forms.

A musculo-membranous canal, variously convoluted, which extends from the stomach to the anus, and is situate in the abdominal cavity; the greater part of which it fills. In man, its length is six or eight times that of the body. It is divided into two principal portions, called small intestine and large intestine. The former constituting nearly four-fifths of the whole length, begins at the stomach and terminates in the right iliac region. It is divided into duodenum, jejunum and ileum. Some anatomists give the name small intestine to the last two only; which are kept in place by the mesentery, and form a large paquet, occupying the umbilical and hypogastric regions, a part of the flanks, of the iliac regions, and of the cavity of the pelvis. It is composed of, 1. A serous membrane, which is peritoneal. 2. Of a muscular coat, whose fibres are very pale, and are placed, in part, longitudinally; but the greater part transversely. 3. Of a whitish, mucous membrane; villous, and forming folds or valves at its inner surface, and furnished with a number of mucous follicles, called glands of Lieberkuhn, (Crypts or Follicles of Lieberkuhn,) and in the duodenum with the glands of Brunner. The arteries of the small intestine proceed from the superior mesenteric; its veins open into the vena porta. Its nerves proceed from the superior mesenteric plexus. The large intestine forms a sequence to the small. It is much shorter, and is solidly attached in the regions of the abdomen which it occupies. It begins in the right iliac region; ascends along the right flank, till beneath the liver, when it crosses the upper part of the abdomen, descends into the left iliac fossa, and plunges into the pelvic cavity, to gain the anus. The great intestine is usually divided into three portions, - the caecum, colon and rectum. It receives its arteries from the superior and inferior mesenteries. Its veins open into the vena porta. Its nerves are furnished by the mesenteric plexuses. Its lymphatic vessels, which are much less numerous than those of the small intestine, pass into the ganglions or glands seated between the different reflections of the peritoneum, which fix it to the abdominal parietes. The use of the intestines is, - in the upper part, to effect the chylification of the food and the absorption of the chyle; - in the lower, to serve as a reservoir, where the excrementitious portion of the food collects; and, also, as an excretory duct, which effects its expulsion.

Membranous tube extending from the stomach to the anus. The first, longer and narrower portion is the small, the other is the large intestine.

The musculomembranous canal (or any definite portion of it) extending from the stomach to the anus, situated inside the abdominal cavity.

n. The canal or tube that extends from the right orifice of the stomach to the anus.

Internal, inward; contained in the body; domestic, not foreign.

The gut, the bowel.