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intestine

[in-tes-tin] / ɪnˈtɛs tɪn /
NOUN
bodily organ
Synonyms
STRONGEST
STRONG


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Figure 23.18 Small Intestine The three regions of the small intestine are the duodenum, jejunum, and ileum.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

Figure 23.21 Large Intestine The large intestine includes the cecum, colon, and rectum.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

Intestine epithelium cells have a "brush border," a structure that is present only in cells specialized for absorption and that is assumed to have arisen as a result of the activity of certain intestine-cell genes.

From Scientific American • Oct. 9, 2012

If there be a considerable Wound in the Intestine, it may be sow'd up with the Glover's Stitch, the manner of making which we have before explain'd.

From The Compleat Surgeon or, the whole Art of Surgery explain'd in a most familiar Method. by Le Clerc, Charles Gabriel

Intestine treachery and division in the Church of the Reformation would have done what the arts and arms of Rome failed to do.

From Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church by Bente, F. (Friedrich)




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