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The Colon (Large Intestine): Function and Anatomy
The large intestine lays around the edges of the abdominal ... well before the "food" reaches your colon. The colon's main ...
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Intestines: Anatomy and Function
The small intestine's three parts assist with absorption and digestion. The primary function of the large intestine is to finish the absorption of nutrients and water that starts in the small ...
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Large intestine articles from across Nature Portfolio
The large intestine's function is to finish digestion of food, extracting water, salt and nutrients from solid waste and excreting indigestible matter from the body via the anus. Anorectal ...
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5 Facts About Your Intestines
What's left of the food goes into your large intestine. And guess what? It's about 15 feet shorter than the small intestine. Ironic, huh? But at three to four inches around, it's wider ...
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The structure of the digestive system
This is all the nutrients your body needs to function properly and collect ... and nutrients out using the tea towel, just like the large intestine does. Well, okay, the large intestine doesn ...
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The secret function of the intestine: the microbiome can influence personality
Bacteria in a person's intestine that are responsible for breaking ... “We hope that the large study will provide us with more definitive answers and, from there, we can see if these findings ...
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Scientists Create First Blueprint of Entire Mouse Gut
“We’ve built a blueprint of the entire gut, and that’s a remarkable achievement,” said study senior author Ramnik Xavier, the HMS Kurt J. Isselbacher Professor of Medicine in the Field of ...
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The structure of the digestive system
This is all the nutrients your body needs to function properly and collect ... and nutrients out using the tea towel, just like the large intestine does. Well, okay, the large intestine doesn ...