| 单词 | intestine |
| 释义 | intestine (once / 1276 pages) n When you eat food, it first passes into your stomach, and then into your intestine. Fun fact: your large intestine is about five feet long. Makes you wonder why they don't call it your "long intestine" instead. The human intestine is split into two sections: the small intestine and the large intestine. Your intestine's job is to continue breaking down the food you've eaten and absorb nutrients into your bloodstream. Intestine comes from the Latin word intestinum, "gut" or "bowels," which is the neuter form of the adjective intestinus, "inward" or "internal." WORD FAMILYintestine: intestinal, intestines+/intestinal: intestinally USAGE EXAMPLESHe would cut away most of their stomachs and reroute their small intestines. New York Times(Dec 27, 2016) When Adams's drugs stopped working and his intestine seemed to be in danger of rupturing, his doctors advised surgery. Nature(Dec 20, 2016) The scaffold also needs to be able to contract, because this is the process that moves the intestine's contents along. Nature(Dec 20, 2016) n the part of the alimentary canal between the stomach and the anus Syn|Hypo|Hyper bowel, gut small intestine the longest part of the alimentary canal; where digestion is completed large intestinebeginning with the cecum and ending with the rectum; includes the cecum and the colon and the rectum; extracts moisture from food residues which are later excreted as feces duodenumthe part of the small intestine between the stomach and the jejunum jejunumthe part of the small intestine between the duodenum and the ileum ileumthe part of the small intestine between the jejunum and the cecum colonthe part of the large intestine between the cecum and the rectum; it extracts moisture from food residues before they are excreted internal organ, viscus a main organ that is situated inside the body |
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