(Lancet, 597, Nov. 4, 1944) has reported the instance of a woman who, having survived the removal of her uterus and of the breast for cancer ten and six years earlier respectively, had to sustain, at the age of fifty-six, the removal of twenty feet of her small intestine: a ...
In humans,the small intestine isabout 6 meters or 20 feet long and the large intestine is about 1.5 meters or 5 feet long. The gastrointestinal tracts of the Chimpanzee, Orangutan, and adult human and a human fetus were studied and compared by Stevens and Hume in 1995. What is the other...
The large intestine is wider and shorter than thesmall intestine(approximately 1.5 metres, or 5 feet, in length as compared with 6.7 to 7.6 metres, or 22 to 25 feet, in length for the small intestine) and has a smooth inner wall. In the proximal, or upper, half of the large intestine...
Small intestine, a long, narrow, folded or coiled tube extending from the stomach to the large intestine; it is the region where most digestion and absorption of food takes place. It is about 6.7 to 7.6 metres (22 to 25 feet) long, highly convoluted, and