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Definition: Intestinal |
IntestinalAdjective1. Of or relating to or inside the intestines; "intestinal disease". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "intestinal" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1839. (references) |
Etymology: Intestinal \In*tes"ti*nal\, adjective. [Compare to the French expression intestinal.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | Having to do with the intestines. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In anatomy of the digestive system, the colon is the part of the intestine from the cecum to the rectum. Its primary purpose is to extract water from feces. In mammals, it consists of the ascending colon on the right side, the transverse colon, the descending colon on the left side, the sigmoid colon, and the rectum.
Diseases of the colon
- angiodysplasia of the colon
- colon cancer
- Crohns disease
- diarrhea
- diverticulitis
- Hirschsprung's disease (aganglionosis)
- infective colitis
- polyposis
- pseudomembranous enterocolitis
- ulcerative colitis and toxic megacolon
Role in digesion
The large intestine comes after the small intestine in the digestive track. Although there are differences in the large intestine between different organisms but the large intesting is mainly responsible for storing waste and reclaiming water and maintaining water balance.By the time the chyme has reached this tube, almost all nutrients have been absorbed by the body and only water and some electrolytes like sodium and chloride are left. The chyme would move though the intestine and would ge dehydrated, mixed with mucus and bacteria, and would become feces. It is important to know that the large intestine produces no digestive enzymes and that the chemical digestion is completed in the small intestine before the chyme reaches the large intestine.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Colon (anatomy)."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The intestines are the part of the body responsible for extracting nutrition from the food an animal consumes and processing the remainder of the food into waste for elimination. Humans have two intestines linked together - the small intestine and the large intestine.
See also
- digestive system
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Intestine."
Synonyms: IntestinalSynonyms: enteral (adj), enteric (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Courage | Manliness, manhood; nerve, pluck, mettle, game; heart, heart of grace; spunk, guts, face, virtue, hardihood, intestinal fortitude; firmness; (stability); heart of oak; bottom, backbone, spine; (perseverance) a. resolution; (determination); bulldog courage. |
Interiority | Adjective: interior, internal; inner, inside, inward, intraregarding; inmost, innermost; deep seated, gut; intestine, intestinal; inland; subcutaneous; abdominal, coeliac, endomorphic;Adjective: interior, internal; inner, inside, inward, intraregarding; inmost, innermost; deep seated, gut; intestine, intestinal; inland; subcutaneous; abdominal, coeliac, endomorphic; interstitial; (interjacent); inwrought; (intrinsic); inclosed; Verb: |
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 | T. vulpis, or "Canine Whipworm", is a parasite that attaches itself to the canine large intestinal mucosa by embedding its head, thereby, causing intestinal inflammation. Credit: CDC. |  | Gross pathology of intestinal amebiasis showing extensive ulceration. Credit: CDC. |
 | Autopsy of infant showing abdominal distension, intestinal necrosis and hemorrhage, and peritonitis due to perforation. Credit: CDC. |  | Alimentary tract of infant showing intestinal necrosis, pneumatosis intestinalis, and perforation site (arrow). Autopsy. Credit: CDC. |
 | Vibrio cholerae is transmitted to humans through the ingestion of contaminated food or water, and produces a cholera toxin, which acts on the intestinal mucosa, and causes severe diarrhea. Credit: CDC. |  | After initially being ingested in contaminated food such as shellfish, or water, the Salmonella typhi bacteria migrate through the intestinal mucosa of the terminal ileum into the submucosal lymph nodes. Credit: CDC. |
 | Histopathology of a typical flask-shaped ulcer of intestinal amebiasis. Kitten. Credit: CDC. |  | The poliovirus lives in the human pharynx and intestinal tract. Poliomyelitis is an acute infection that involves the gastrointestinal tract and, occasionally, the central nervous system. It is acquired by fecal-oral transmission. Credit: CDC. |
 | Enterococcus (streptococcus) faecalis is a normal inhabitant of intestinal tract, and female genital tract, and is occasionally associated with urinary tract infection, bacteremia and bacterial endocarditis. Credit: CDC. |  | Unsanitary privy, flies may easily spread intestinal disease from this type. Near La Plata, Maryland. Charles County. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Health | Intestinal anthrax results in death in 25% to 60% of cases. (references) | |
Problems with intestinal function (Chronic idiopathic constipation). (references) | ||
Medicine might also be given to help with intestinal muscle problems. (references) | ||
Economic History | Ireland | Self-medication remains an important part of the total Irish market for pharmaceutical products and can be divided up into the following sub-sectors: analgesics - 26 per cent, cough and cold treatments - 25 per cent, vitamins - 18 per cent, skin treatment -16 per cent and digestive & intestinal remedies -15 per cent. (references) |
Travel | Indonesia | Dehydration as a result of intestinal illnesses can be a serious, even life-threatening condition if not treated. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | LETTUCE, n. An herb of the genus Lactuca, "Wherewith," says that pious gastronome, Hengist Pelly, "God has been pleased to reward the good and punish the wicked. For by his inner light the righteous man has discerned a manner of compounding for it a dressing to the appetency whereof a multitude of gustible condiments conspire, being reconciled and ameliorated with profusion of oil, the entire comestible making glad the heart of the godly and causing his face to shine. But the person of spiritual unworth is successfully tempted to the Adversary to eat of lettuce with destitution of oil, mustard, egg, salt and garlic, and with a rascal bath of vinegar polluted with sugar. Wherefore the person of spiritual unworth suffers an intestinal pang of strange complexity and raises the song." |
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| "Intestinal" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.29% of the time. "Intestinal" is used about 842 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 99.29% | 836 | 8,408 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.71% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 842 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "intestinal": Immunoproliferative Small Intestinal Disease ♦ intestinal artery ♦ Intestinal Atresia ♦ intestinal bypass ♦ intestinal calculus ♦ Intestinal canal ♦ intestinal colic ♦ Intestinal Fistula ♦ Intestinal Flora ♦ intestinal flu ♦ Intestinal inflammation ♦ intestinal intubation ♦ intestinal juice ♦ Intestinal Mucosa ♦ Intestinal Neoplasms ♦ intestinal obstruction ♦ intestinal parasite ♦ Intestinal Polyps ♦ Intestinal Pseudo-Obstruction ♦ intestinal schistosomiasis ♦ Intestinal worm ♦ intestinal worms ♦ Vasoactive Intestinal Peptide. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "intestinal": intestinal-type. | |
Ending with "intestinal": extra-intestinal, gastro-intestinal, Lieno-intestinal, pan-intestinal, test-intestinal. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "intestinal"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i zorrëve (enteric). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | чревен (enteric, splanchnic). (various references) | |
Chinese | 小 . (various references) | |
Czech | střevní (enteric). (various references) | |
Danish | intestinal. (various references) | |
Dutch | intestinaal. (various references) | |
Farsi | امعاءی (Enteric), روده ای , روده دار. (various references) | |
Finnish | suoliston mikro-organismit (flora of the intestine, intestinal flora), suoliston mikrobit (flora of the intestine, intestinal flora), suolistokaasu (intestinal gases), suolineste (intestinal juice), suolimato (intestinal worm), suoliloinen (intestinal parasite, parasitic worm), suolen tukkeuma (intestinal obstruction), suolen okkluusio (intestinal obstruction), sisäloinen (endoparasite, internal parasite, intestinal parasite, parasitic worm), ohutsuolen passagetutkimus (small bowel transit time with barium, small intestinal transit time with barium), ohutsuolen kauttakulkututkimus (small bowel transit time with barium, small intestinal transit time with barium), occlusio intestini (intestinal obstruction), nenämahaletkun asennus (gastric intubation, intestinal intubation, intubation, nasogastric intubation), endoparasiitti (endoparasite, internal parasite, intestinal parasite, parasitic worm). (various references) | |
French | intestinal. (various references) | |
German | intestinal. (various references) | |
Greek | εντερικόσ (enteric), εντερικός. (various references) | |
Hebrew | אבן מעים (intestinal calculus). (various references) | |
Hungarian | bél- (enteric, iliac). (various references) | |
Italian | intestinale (enteric). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 腸閉塞 (intestinal obstruction), 腸結 (intestinal tuberculosis), 腸液 (intestinal fluids), 腸壁 (intestinal wall), "虫 (round intestinal worm). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | かいちゅう (in the sea, one's pocket, recasting, reminting, round intestinal worm, roundworm), ちょうけっかく (intestinal tuberculosis), ちょうへいそく (intestinal obstruction), ちょうへき (intestinal wall), ちょうえき (imprisonment with hard labor, intestinal fluids, penal servitude). (various references) | |
Korean | 장 (Cabinet, Chief, sheet). (various references) | |
Manx | collaneagh (colicky). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | intestinalay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | intestinal. (various references) | |
Romanian | intestinal. (various references) | |
Russian | кишечный (enteric). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | intestinalni, crevni (splanchnic). (various references) | |
Spanish | intestinal. (various references) | |
Swedish | inälvs- (enteric), tarm- (enteric). (various references) | |
Turkish | bağırsaklara ait (enteric), bağırsak (bowel, bowels, enteric, enteron, gastral, gut, ileo-, intestine). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | кишковий (enteric), внутрішній (domestic, in, inboard, in-house, inland, inlying, inner, inside, interior, intern, internal, intestine, inward, routine, within). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tính can trường (intestinal fortitude, manfulness), sự gan dạ (dauntlessness, doughtiness, gallantry, gameness, gut, hardihood, hardiness, intestinal fortitude, moxie). (various references) | |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "intestinal": intestinally. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "intestinal": gastrointestinal. (additional references) | |
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"Intestinal" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: intenstinal, intestin, intestinlam, intetinal, intstinal. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "intestinal" (pronounced i'nte"stunul) |
| 10 | i' n t e" s t u n u l | gastrointestinal. |
| 5 | -t u n u l | cantonal, retinal, sentinel. |
| 4 | -u n u l | abdominal, aberrational, aboriginal, additional, Arsenal, attitudinal, binational, biphenyl, Cardinal, coeducational, collisional, compositional, computational, concessional, conditional, confessional, conformational, confrontational, congregational, congressional, connotational, constitutional, conventional, conversational, correctional, criminal, delusional, denominational, depositional, devotional, diagonal, dimensional, directional, divisional, doctrinal, duodenal, dysfunctional, educational, emotional, erosional, exceptional, factional, fictional, fluxional, foundational, fractional, functional, generational, gravitational, hexagonal, impersonal, improvisational, subliminal, superregional, supranational, terminal, informational, inspirational, institutional, instructional, intentional, intergenerational, international, interpersonal, investigational, Invitational, irrational, jurisdictional, juvenile, latitudinal, longitudinal, luminal, marginal, medicinal, motivational, multinational, national, navigational, nominal, noncriminal, nonprofessional, nontraditional, nutritional, obsessional, occasional, occupational, octagonal, operational, optional, organizational, original, personal, phenomenal, polygonal, processional, professional, promotional, proportional, provisional, rational, recreational, regional, relational, representational, rotational, seasonal, sectional, seminal, sensational, situational, traditional, transformational, transitional, transnational, unconditional, unconstitutional, unconventional, unemotional, unintentional, unprofessional, untraditional, virginal, vocational. |
| 3 | -n u l | infernal, adrenal, anal, annal, annul, atonal, autumnal, carnal, channel, Colonel, communal, cornel, Darnel, departmental, diurnal, empanel, eternal, external, faunal, fennel, final, flannel, fraternal, funnel, hormonal, Hymnal, impanel, spinal, internal, journal, kennel, kernel, maternal, monoclonal, monsoonal, morainal, nocturnal, panel, paternal, penal, polyvinyl, renal, semifinal, shrapnel, signal, tonal, tribunal, tunnel, vaginal, venal, vernal, Vinal, vinyl. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-i-l-n-n-s-t-t" | |
-2 letters: alienist, anilines, intitles, lintiest, litanies, stannite, tinniest. | |
-3 letters: aniline, anilins, asinine, elastin, elitist, entails, inanest, instant, instate, intents, intines, intitle, isatine, laities, latents, lattens, lattins, liniest, linnets, nailset, salient, saltine, satinet, slainte, stanine, talents, tannest, tenails, tenants, tennist, tiniest, titians. | |
-4 letters: aliens, alines, anenst, anilin, elains, elints, enlist, entail, inanes, inlets, innate, insane. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-i-l-n-n-s-t-t" | |
+2 letters: antinovelist, intestinally, militantness, ventilations. | |
+3 letters: alimentations, anthelmintics, antinovelists, clandestinity, infantilities, internalities, nationalities, notionalities. | |
+4 letters: antineoplastic, denticulations, extensionality, incrementalist, intelligentsia, intensionality, intercalations, internationals, interpolations, interrelations, intersectional, intransigently, intransitively, luteinizations, militantnesses, nonexistential, quintessential, reinstallation, sensationalist, sentimentalise, sentimentalism, sentimentalist, sentimentality, sentimentalize, unhesitatingly, untenabilities. | |
+5 letters: antisentimental, antispeculation, centralizations, clandestinities, connaturalities, conventionalist, externalisation, functionalities, gelatinizations, implementations, incrementalists, instrumentalism, instrumentalist, instrumentality, intangibilities, intelligentsias, interlacustrine, interlineations, interpellations, intransigeantly, introspectional, investigational, latensification, monumentalities, neutralizations, nonrelativistic, reimplantations, reinstallations, sensationalists, sentimentalised, sentimentalises, sentimentalisms, sentimentalists, sentimentalized, sentimentalizes, transilluminate, transliterating, transliteration, unpunctualities. | |
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