duodenum
IPA: duˈɑdʌnʌm
noun
- (anatomy) The first part of the small intestine, starting at the lower end of the stomach and extending to the jejunum.
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Examples of "duodenum" in Sentences
- In the narrow space between the stomach and the duodenum is the elongated pancreas, _pan_, opening by two or more short ducts into the duodenum.
- [*] As I noted above, Ace’s post was ambiguous as to whether the jackhammer cock’s approach to the duodenum is per orem or per anum. anon E. mouse Says:
- There is no coiling small intestine, but the short portion, receiving the bile duct (b.d.) and duct of the pancreas (pan.), is called the duodenum (d'dum.).
- And, as has been pointed out by ‘mark’, the duodenum is that part of the small intestine between the stomach and the large intestine – a long way from any body openings.
- Since the pancreas is so close to the small intestine, there are many ducts streaming from its head to carry the enzymes to the duodenum, which is the beginning of the intestine.
- The arteries supplying the duodenum are the right gastric and superior pancreaticoduodenal branches of the hepatic, and the inferior pancreaticoduodenal branch of the superior mesenteric.
- Its chief function is to absorb the peptonised fluid mass of food, or the chyle, and it is subdivided into several sections, of which the first (next to the stomach) is called the duodenum (Figure 2.349 fgh).
- B biliary tree - a series of ducts that transport bile from the liver — where it's manufactured — to the small intestine (also called the duodenum), which uses bile to digest food. bile - a yellow-green liquid produced in the liver.
- It is of an oblong form, and appears to be for the purpose of containing the bile, until the proper time for it to be thrown into the stomach: -- the bile is conveyed from the gall bladder into the first portion of the small intestines, called duodenum, and from thence into the stomach.
- (If you imagine a vertical line connecting the two orifices, the duodenum sits very roughly at the midpoint; on the other hand, if you consider the actual route that food takes through the entire twisting length of the digestive system, then the duodenum is actually much closer to the mouth than to the anus.)
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