large intestine
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2.8
- noun
- /lɑrdʒ ɪnˈtɛstɪn/
- Specialized
:
intestino grueso
- A healthy diet is important for the proper functioning of the large intestine.
- small and large intestine
Because fiber is supposed to be fermented in the large intestine, right?
- Because fiber is supposed to be fermented in the large intestine, right?
- This can be the third part of your small intestine or anywhere in your large intestine or in your rectum or anus.
- Now your, your large intestine is filled with billions, if not trillions of bacteria, right?
- And then if you're eating crap food, it's going down to the, the large intestine and you need to feed your gut bacteria with fibre.
- So they they ferment these these food products that pass through undigested into the large intestine.
- And sometimes what happens is almost all of your probiotics or just microbes, bacteria should be down in your colon or your large intestine.
- Now, in some cases, fecal transplants are done transrectally, so you would get the poop and then you would insert it kind of retrograde into your own large intestine.
- They're most concentrated inside of our large intestine, which is our:.
- And then what it does when it gets heavy, it sits on your large intestines, and that's what pushes out.
- Spleen, liver, pancreas, and large intestines?
- There's the stomach, the large intestine, the small intestine that all of those organs are made from the food that is patient has eaten.
Examples
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The large intestine absorbs water and forms waste to be excreted from the body.
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The large intestine also provides more surface area for the chemical breakdown and absorption of food.
Academic text (1993) -
I spent six weeks in the hospital and had my entire large intestine taken out.
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Although stress often plays out in the stomach, the large intestine is where most of the action takes place.
Academic text (2006) -
Because fiber is supposed to be fermented in the large intestine, right?
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They end up in the large intestine, where they are fermented by bacteria.
Blog text (29) -
The appendix is a small worm shaped pouch attached to the large intestine that houses a diversity of gut microbes.
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After digestion, any undigested food passes into the large intestine where it is processed.
Synonyms
90
4.4
The main part of the large intestine that absorbs water before the body passes waste
Antonyms
- Specialized
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3.4
A long narrow tube between the stomach and large bowel that digests food and takes in nutrients
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is a straightforward adjective + noun composition: 'large' (bigger) modifies 'intestine' (section of the digestive tract), so a learner knowing both words will infer it refers to the larger part of the intestines. This is a common, cross-linguistic anatomical naming pattern, so the general meaning is immediately accessible to a B1 learner even if precise medical boundaries are unknown.
Etymology
Large intestine was named by early doctors who compared two tubes in the belly: the wider tube was called the large intestine and the thinner one the 'small intestine'. That's why the name reminds you that this wide part 'absorbs water' from waste before it leaves the body.