Food passes from the stomach to the small intestine and from there to the large intestine.
Inflammation of the cecum of the large intestine.
Treatment sometimes involves removing the large intestine including the rectum.
When the lung functions normally, the large intestine does well.
The large blind pouch forming the beginning of the large intestine.
The section of the large intestine extending from the cecum to the rectum.
of or relating to the sigmoid flexure in the large intestine.
There is a layer of slime, called mucus, on the inside of the large intestine (colon).
Appendix (in full vermiform appendix):Vestigial hollow tube attached to the cecum of the large intestine.
Cancer (malignancy), unproven tumour, polypus, hard lump, cyst or excrescence of the large intestine.
Rectum: End segment of the large intestine in which feces accumulate just prior to discharge.
"It extends about 13 ft (4 m), from the jejunum (middle section of the small intestine) to the ileocecal valve, where it joins the large intestine."
Colorectal cancer: Malignant tumour of the large intestine (colon) or rectum.
Resistant starch is the portion of ingested starchy material which escapes digestion in the small intestine and is acted upon by microflora in the large intestine.
To research the distriBution, size, shape, pathology of the large intestine polypus and the relative factors in its worsening course.
The lung and the large intestine form an exterior-interior relationship by mutual connections of their meridians.
UC is a type of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) that affects the lining of the large intestine (colon) and rectum.
Flatulence is gas released by bacteria that live in the large intestine when they break down food.
Disorders produce vitamin B12 deficiency and extensive diarrhea (since Bile salts in the large intestine interfere with water absorption).
"This tube is enlarged in mine areas and coiled in others. It extends from the mouth to the anus, the lower end of the large intestine."
Conversely when the descending function of the lung qi do not work well, it will affect the functionof the large intestine in transportation, causing difficult bowel movements.
The appendix is a worm-like tube between two and four inches long protruding from the start of the large intestine.
The human appendix is a small dead-end tube connected to the cecum, or ascending colon, one section of the large intestine.
These, however, have been exposed to the digestive mercies of bacteria in the large intestine, and any residual goodies have been removed from them that way.
Effects of gastrin receptor antagonist and cyclooxygenase-2 inhibitor on proliferation and the cell cycle of the large intestine carcinoma cell lines LoVo cultured in vitro
a serious chronic inflammatory disease of the large intestine and rectum characterized by recurrent episodes of abdominal pain and fever and chills and profuse diarrhea.
I was hospitalized for six weeks in 1984 with an acute case of ulcerative colitis, an autoimmune disease that attacks the large intestine.
The portion of the alimentary canal extending from the stomach to the anus and, in human beings and other mammals, consisting of two segments, the small intestine and the large intestinen used in the plural.
Objective:To study both the nutritional and the bowel cleared effect of the preoperative use of total enteral tube feeding nutrition in the patients with cancer of the large intestine.
But levels of friendly bacteria in the gut drop significantly after 55, particularly in the large intestine, says Tom MacDonald, professor of immunology at BartsAnd the London medical school.
For instance, when body fluid is consumed because of excessive heat in the stomach, the large intestine is bound to have trouble in transportation, and, in consequence, constipation occurs.
