intestines

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intestines

plural noun guts, insides (informal), bowels, internal organs, innards (informal), entrails, vitals This vitamin is absorbed through the walls of the small intestine.

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technical name viscera
adjective alvine

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Acanthocephala acanthocephalan alvine amebic dysentery amoebic dysentery Ascaridae ascending colon blind gut bowel caecum cecum chitterlings colon descending colon duodenum entero- Enterobius vermicularis gastrointestinal hormone GI hormones			Not to tell over again his furlongs from spiracle to tail, and the yards he measures about the waist; only think of the gigantic involutions of his intestines, where they lie in him like great cables and hausers coiled away in the subterranean orlop-deck of a line-of-battle-ship. Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context Though he had heard my voice when I first addressed him, the sounds had come to him in a manner so contrary to his experience that he had made no answer, "seeing no man", as he expressed it, "and hearing a voice as it were from my own intestines. Flatland by Abbott, Edwin View in context Poisons act particularly on some organ or another -- one on the stomach, another on the brain, another on the intestines. The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas, Alexandre View in context			intervolution intervolve interwar interweave interwish interworking interworld interwove interwoven interwreathe intestable Intestacy intestate intestinal intestinal artery intestinal bypass Intestinal canal intestinal colic intestinal flora intestinal flu intestinal fortitude intestinal juice intestinal obstruction Intestinal worm intestine intestines Intext Intextine Intextured Inthirst Inthrall Inthrallment Inthrone Inthrong Inthronization Inthronize inti Intice intifada intifadah intima intimacy intimae intimal intimate intimate apparel intimately intimation intime intimidate intimidated			Intestinal villi Intestinal villi Intestinal villi intestinal villus intestinal villus intestinal villus Intestinal volvulus Intestinal volvulus Intestinal volvulus intestinal wall intestinal wall intestinal wall intestinal wall Intestinal worm Intestinal-Type Goblet Cells Intestinal-Vascular Access Port intestinally intestinally intestinally intestine intestine intestine Intestine juice Intestine juice Intestine, large Intestine, large Intestine, large Intestine, small Intestine, small Intestine, small intestines intestinum intestinum intestinum intestinum crassum intestinum tenue intestinus INTET INTETAIN Intex Intex Mining Company Limited INTEX-NA Intext Intextine Intextured INTF INTFC INTFO INTG intgl INTGLIM INTGR INTGSS Inthanon InTheAirNet Inthewire INTHF

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