intestines
The part of the gastrointestinal tract that extends from the stomach to the anus. The intestines are further subdivided into the large intestine and small intestine. (See digestive system.)
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How to use intestines in a sentence
Polio is an enterovirus (lives and is replicated in our intestines) that is spread via fecal-oral transmission.
U.N. Calls Middle East Polio Outbreak ‘Greatest Polio Challenge in History’ | Kent Sepkowitz | April 9, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTReducing the amount of the virus in the lower intestines could then help keep uninfected people uninfected.
Weed Could Block H.I.V.’s Spread. No, Seriously. | Abby Haglage | February 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIn other words, the body works hard to keep bad stuff in the intestines and the good stuff out.
Weed Could Block H.I.V.’s Spread. No, Seriously. | Abby Haglage | February 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTParticular scientific interest has been focused on bacterial (and other microbial) diversity in our intestines.
Slaughtering cattle is not a very clean process and meat can become contaminated from the intestines.
Be Afraid of Your Food: An Epidemiologist’s Sensible Advice | Amanda Kludt | March 16, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
He is less corpulent, and his legs are shorter; in the stomach and intestines, there is a difference of conformation.
Buffon's Natural History. Volume VII (of 10) | Georges Louis Leclerc de BuffonBut we notice that the intestines of man, both small and large, are relatively longer than in the frog.
A Civic Biology | George William HunterOf or from the belly or intestines; relating to the intestinal secretions.
Some of the flies themselves were then caught, and their intestines presented large numbers of the ova.
It is no easy matter to get at the fat in the inside of an elephant,378 as the whole of the intestines have first to be removed.
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