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Definition: Large Intestine |
Large IntestineNoun1. Beginning with the cecum and ending with the rectum; includes the cecum and the colon and the rectum; extracts moisture from food residues which are later excreted as feces. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Health | The part of the intestine that goes from the cecum to the rectum. The large intestine absorbs water from stool and changes it from a liquid to a solid form. The large intestine is 5 feet long and includes the appendix, cecum, colon, and rectum. Also called colon. (references) |
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Crosswords: Large Intestine |
| English words defined with "large intestine": ascending colon ♦ blind gut ♦ caecum, cecum, colic vein, colon ♦ descending colon ♦ Gold beater's skin ♦ ileocecal valve, Ileocolic, inferior mesenteric artery ♦ Midgut ♦ sigmoid, sigmoidal ♦ transverse colon ♦ ulcerative colitis ♦ vena colica. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "large intestine": Balantidiasis, bloody scours ♦ coecum, Colorectal Cancer ♦ Dientamoeba ♦ Eosinophilic Gastroenteritis ♦ goldbeaters' skin ♦ Hirschsprung Disease ♦ Mesenteric Artery, Superior ♦ Peptococcus ♦ swine dysentery ♦ Treponema hyodysenteriae infection. (references) |
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 | Line drawing showing large intestine, duodenum, gall bladder, liver, bile duct, esophagus, pancreas and stomach.Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | Escherichia coli is the most common aerobic bacteria found in the large intestine of healthy individuals, and accounts for 90-95% of all the aerobic bacteria.Credit: CDC. |
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Health | HD is a disease of the large intestine. (references) | |
It includes the large intestine and small intestine. (references) | ||
The large intestine is also sometimes called the colon. (references) | ||
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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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
large intestine | 121 |
large intestine picture | 12 |
function of the large intestine | 9 |
large intestine cancer | 5 |
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| Language | Translations for "large intestine"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | zorrë e trashë (colon, rectum). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | дебело черво. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 胴 (torso). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | tyktarm (chitterlings, colon), svinekrusetarme (chitterlings), colon (colon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | krausedarmen (chitterlings), intestinum crassum, dikke darm. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | paksusuoli (bung, chitterlings, colon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | gros intestin, gros boyau, colon hélicoïdal, chaudin, côlon. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Schweinskrause (chitterlings), Schweinekrause (chitterlings), Krausdarm (chitterlings), Intestinum crassum, Intestinum amplum, Dickdarm (colon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | παχύ έντερο (colon, rectum). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | כרכשת (rectum). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | vastagbél (colon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | intestino crasso del maiale (chitterlings), intestino crasso, crespone di maiale (chitterlings). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | argelay intestineay tripa (bowel, chitterlings, gut, intestine), intestino grosso (large scale), família grande (extended memory). (various references) intestinul gros. (various references) толстая кишка. (various references) tripa (chitterlings, gut, intestine), rizado de cerdo (chitterlings), intestino grueso. (various references) kalınbağırsak. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | colo, colorum, multicoloria. (various references) |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-e-g-i-i-l-n-n-r-s-t-t" | |
-2 letters: generalities. | |
-3 letters: intenerates, interesting, internalise, reenlisting, reinstating, straitening. | |
-4 letters: antielites, argentines, argentites, astringent, eglantines, elaterites, engineries, entanglers, entertains, entireties, entreaties, entreating, estreating, eternising, eternities, generalise, generalist, integrates, intenerate, interlines, interstage, intestinal, intreating, intrigants, itinerants, itinerates, legerities, leistering, lentigines, letterings, lienteries, regalities, resettling, resinating, retailings, sententiae, sentential, singletree, tangerines, tenantries, tetanising, transiting, triennials. | |
-5 letters: agentries, aigrettes, algerines, anglesite, antielite, antigenes, argentine, argentite, arginines, eglantine, eglateres, elaterins, elaterite, engineers, enlisting, entailers, entailing, entangler, entangles, enteritis, entertain, entitling, gainliest, galenites, gannister, gantlines, gelatines, generates, gestalten, glairiest, gleetiest, gnarliest, grainiest, gratinees, greeniest, greenlets, inelegant, inletting, inserting, insetting, instanter, instating, instigate, integrals, integrate, interlent, interline, internals, internees, internist, interties, intestine, intranets, intrigant, iterating, itinerant, itinerate, lannerets, lateeners, laterites, learnings, lettering, linearise, lingeries, listening, literates, litigants, litigates, littering, nattering, nearliest, nitrating, rattening, rattlings, realising, realities, regelates, reignites, reinstate, releasing, relegates, relenting, reletting, relisting, renailing, renesting, resailing, resealing, reseating, resenting, resetting, resilient, resitting, reslating, restating, retailing, retaining, retasting, retesting, retinenes, retinites, retinting, retitling, ringtails, saintlier, sententia, seriating, sintering, startling, statelier, sterilant, stingaree, straining, streeling, striating, stringent, tangerine, tangliest, tanneries, teaseling, teenagers, teentsier, teetering, telneting, tentering, tingliest, tinseling, trainings, transient, treenails, triangles, triennial. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 61 72 67 65 49 6E 74 65 73 74 69 6E 65 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01100001 01110010 01100111 01100101 00100000 01001001 01101110 01110100 01100101 01110011 01110100 01101001 01101110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L a r g e   I n t e s t i n e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0061 0072 0067 0065 0049 006E 0074 0065 0073 0074 0069 006E 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)46678473712438086718586758071 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Photo Album | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Translations: Ancient | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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