The large intestine lays around the edges of the abdominal ... well before the "food" reaches your colon. The colon's main ...

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 ...

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 ...

Partially digested food arrives in the intestine from the stomach. Digested food is absorbed in the small intestine. This means that it passes through the wall of the small intestine and into the ...

“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 ...