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The colon is the last portion of the digestive system in most vertebrates; it extracts water and salt from solid wastes before they are eliminated from the body. In mammals, the colon consists of fo...
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The large intestine is wide in diameters but shorter than the small intestine. It is only about 1.5 meters (5 feet) long. There is no decomposition of food in the large intestine. Bacteria in the large intestine break down any quantity of proteins that have not been completely digested.
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Many people often confuse the large intestine with the small intestine. However the large intestine is wider yet shorter than the small intestine (in humans around 5 feet in length as compared with 22 - 25 feet, or 6.7 - 7.6 meters, for the small intestine) and has a smooth inner wall.
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2 The large intestine is a tube of muscles and tissue that is around five feet long in adults. It is shorter than the small intestine, but wider than the small intestine. The large intestine has two main parts — the colon and the rectum.
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The small intestine is the narrow upper part of the intestines lined with mucous membranes which secrete enzymes responsible for the digestion of food and through which digestible nutrients pass into the blood and lymph.It is divided into ...
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The small intestine is important to digestion, which takes several hours. The partially digested food has to move slowly and make lots of contact with the walls of the intestine, so a long tube with small diameter slows things down and insu...
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Certainly there'd be some impact on the meanings and popularity of words from how they sound and look. To some small degree we've been subconsciously shaping our language to make nice anagrams since it began.
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The larynx is at the top of the windpipe (trachea ). Its walls are made of cartilage . The large cartilage that forms the front of the larynx is sometimes called the Adam's apple. The vocal cords , two bands of muscle, form a "V" inside the larynx.
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The answer to the geography question - What is the world's largest lake? ... A lake any body of water surrounded by land and very large lakes are sometimes called seas. The world's largest lake is the salty Caspian Sea at 143,200 square miles (370,886 km2). The Caspian Sea is surrounded by Russia, Azerbaijan, Iran,
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