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Intestinum

Intestinum

1. The digestive tube passing from the stomach to the anus. It is divided primarily into the intestinum tenue (small intestine) and the intestinum crassum (large intestine).

Synonym: bowel, intestine.

2. Inward; inner.

Origin: neuter of intestinus

Synonym: gut.

Origin: L. Intestinus, internal, ntr. As noun, the entrails, fr. Intus, within


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... to the complex processes on eating some thing. consist of truncus digestifus and glandula digestoria. in human... from rima oris, ventriculus, intestinum, rektum, anus and, hepar, pancreas, vesica fellea.... depend on the taxon level of the organism... the system also categorized into 2 groups. ...

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by baikuza
Mon Apr 03, 2006 11:38 am
 
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Anatomy of human digestive system

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by victor
Wed Jun 29, 2005 8:41 am
 
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