jejunumn.
/dʒᵻˈdʒuːnəm/, U.S. /dʒəˈdʒunəm/ Anatomy.
The second part of the small intestine, between the duodenum and ileum, the limits of which, where it passes into the ileum, are ill-defined.
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fasting guta1413
jejunum?1541
hungry gut1552
jejune gut1696
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) v. xlii. 158 The seconde subtyll gutte in latyn is callyd ieiunium to vnder~stonde in englyssh, fastynge, for he is alwaye voyde of mete and drynke, that gutte putteth of al thynges fro it selfe, and holdith no thynge to his owne fedynge.]
?1541 R. Copland Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens ii. sig. Hiv After this is the gut that hyght Ieiunium, bycause it is alwayes emptye for the greate multytude of messerayke veynes that be aboute it contynually suckynge it.
1706 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 25 2302 The cæcum..red coloured like the jejunum in a Man.
1831 R. Knox tr. H. Cloquet Syst. Human Anat. (ed. 2) 613 The jejunum occupies the two upper fifths of the small intestine, and the ileum the rest of its extent. It is easy enough to see that such a division is arbitrary and has no sufficient foundation.
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