Small Intestine

Definition: Small Intestine

Small Intestine

Noun

1. The longest part of the alimentary canal; where digestion is completed.

Specialty Definition: Small Intestine

Domain	Definition
Health	The part of the digestive tract that is located between the stomach and the large intestine. (references)
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Specialty Definition: Small intestine

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

In biology the small intestine is the part of the gastrointestinal tract between the stomach and the large intestine. In adult humans it is about 7m long. It is divided into three structural parts: duodenum, jejunum and ileum. Food from the stomach is allowed in to the duodenum by a muscle called the pylorus, or pyloric sphincter, and is then pushed through the small intestine by a process of muscular contractions called peristalsis.

The small intestine is the site where most of the nutrients from ingesteed food is absorbed. There are microscopic finger-like projections called villi covering the small intestinal walls which increase surface area for absorption.

Small intestine disorders (see also gastroenterology):

small intestine obstruction ("high" mechanic ileus)
- volvulus
- obstruction from external pressure
- obstruction by masses in the lumen (foreign bodies, bezoar, gallstones)
paralytic ileus
Crohn's disease
celiac disease
carcinoid
Meckel's Diverticulum
dumping syndrome
infectious diseases
- giardiasis
- ascaridosis
ischeamic injury

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Small intestine."

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Crosswords: Small Intestine

English words defined with "small intestine": Agminated ♦ chyle ♦ duodenum ♦ enteritis ♦ ileocecal valve, ileum, intestinal bypass ♦ jejunitis, jejunoileitis, jejunum ♦ lacteal, large intestine ♦ secretin ♦ trypsinogen. (references)

Specialty definitions using "small intestine": Altar, ampulla of Vater, Anastomosis, Roux-en-Y, armed tapeworm ♦ Bile Ducts, Biliopancreatic Diversion ♦ Chenodeoxycholic Acid, Choledochostomy, Cholic Acids, Continent Ileostomy, continent reservoir, cuajar, Cytochrome P-450 CYP2B1 ♦ depolluting ship, Duodenitis ♦ endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography, Enteroscopy, Eosinophilic Gastroenteritis, Eosinophilic Granuloma, ERCP ♦ Gastric exclusion , gastric intubation, Gastric Outlet Obstruction, Granulomatous Enteritis ♦ Hydrogen Breath Test ♦ Ileal, Ileoanal Pull-Through, Immunoproliferative Small Intestinal Disease, intestinal intubation ♦ Jejunoileal Bypass ♦ lleocolitis ♦ Mesenteric Artery, Superior ♦ nasogastric, nasogastric intubation, Necator americanus ♦ oil recovery vessel ♦ Peptide YY, Peutz-Jeghers Syndrome, Peyer's Patches, pig tapeworm, pork tapeworm, Postcholecystectomy Syndrome, Pyloroplasty ♦ Small Bowel Enema, solium, stage I pancreatic cancer, Sucrase-Isomaltase Complex ♦ Taenia solium, Taurochenodeoxycholic Acid, Toxascaris ♦ villus cell. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Small Intestine

Domain	Title
Books	Atlas of Small Intestine Pathology (reference) Biopsy pathology of the small intestine (reference) Immunopathology of the Small Intestine (Wiley Medical Publication) (reference) Pathology of the Colon, Small Intestine, and Anus (reference) (more book examples)
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Photo Album: Small Intestine

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Line drawing showing colon, rectum, stomach, cecum, appendix, small intestine and anus. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.		Giardia lamblia is the protozoan organism that causes the disease Giardiasis, a diarrheal disorder directly affecting the small intestine. Credit: CDC.
	These very slow growing tumors usually originate from enterochromaffin cells of the small intestine, and are very rare. One quarter of the time they develop in the lungs. Credit: CDC.
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Non-Fiction Usage: Small Intestine

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		It may also be used to examine the small intestine. (references)
		It includes the large intestine and small intestine. (references)
		The duodenum is the top part of the small intestine. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	ALTAR, n. The place whereupon the priest formerly raveled out the small intestine of the sacrificial victim for purposes of divination and cooked its flesh for the gods. The word is now seldom used, except with reference to the sacrifice of their liberty and peace by a male and a female tool. They stood before the altar and supplied The fire themselves in which their fat was fried. In vain the sacrifice! -- no god will claim An offering burnt with an unholy flame. M.P. Nopput
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Small Intestine

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
small intestine	180
small intestine cancer	21
small intestine disease	14
small intestine function	8
small intestine tumor	7
large small intestine	7
small intestine disorder	4
small intestine obstruction	3
small intestine surgery	3
human small intestine	3
small intestine transplant	2
small intestine cancer symptom	2
digestive system small intestine	2
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Modern Translation: Small Intestine

Language		Translations for "small intestine"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Bulgarian		тънко черво. (various references)

Danish		tyndtarm, intestinum tenue. (various references)

Dutch		intestinum tenue, dunne darm. (various references)

Finnish		ohutsuoli. (various references)

French		intestin grêle. (various references)

German		Dünndarm. (various references)

Greek		λεπτό έντερο. (various references)

Hungarian		vékonybél (small gut). (various references)

Italian		intestino tenue. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		小腸 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		しょうちょう (ebb and flow, ministries and government offices, prosperity and decay, rise and fall, symbol, the authorities, ups and downs). (various references)

Pig Latin		allsmay intestineay

Portuguese		intestino delgado. (various references)

Russian		тонкая кишка. (various references)

Spanish		intestino delgado. (various references)

Turkish		incebağırsak. (various references)
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Ancestral Language Translations: Small Intestine

Language	Period	Translations
Medieval Latin	700-1500	botellus. (various references)
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Misspellings: Small Intestine

Misspellings
	"Small Intestine" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: samll intestine. (additional references)
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Anagrams: Small Intestine

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-e-i-i-l-l-m-n-n-s-s-t-t"
	-2 letters: installments, instillments, intimateness, militantness.
	-3 letters: enlistments, entailments, inessential, inseminates, installment, instalments, instillment, mentalities, sentimental, tiemannites.
	-4 letters: alinements, antielites, eliminates, enamelists, enlistment, entailment, estaminets, inseminate, instalment, intestinal, intestines, lineaments, littleness, mentalists, mesnalties, ministates, saintliest, satellites, sentential, sentiments, sinsemilla, talentless, tenantless, tiemannite, timeliness.
	-5 letters: alienisms, alienists, alienness, alinement, amenities, amnesties, anisettes, antielite, antisense, einsteins, eliminate, enamelist.
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