Synonyms for intestine
noun bodily organWord Origin & History
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."
Example Sentences forintestine
Disorganization, aggravated by intestine faction, grew worse and worse.
Care should be taken that no loop of intestine is allowed to remain.
I mean an intestine motion of the atoms or molecules of the luminous body.
I defined the Capricorn-grub as a bit of an intestine that crawls about.
My diagnosis was paresis of the muscularis of the intestine.
The hindgut is that portion of the intestine from the stomach to the end of the body.
The mucous membrane of the intestine is much congested and swollen.
It is not absorbed at all from the stomach and only very slowly from the intestine.
Is, therefore, oxygen the cause of the formation of the intestine of echinus?
Intestine feuds were repressed by the proclamation of a public peace.