ileum

IPA: ɪɫiʌm

(anatomy) The last, and usually the longest, division of the small intestine; the part between the jejunum and large intestine.

Examples of "ileum" in Sentences

The ileum is the lower part of the small intestine.
Diverted enzymes join the ingested food only in the distal small intestine, otherwise known as the ileum
Okay - the Crohn's was affecting my terminal ileum, that is where the small intestine meets the large intestine.
It usually occurs in the lower part of the small intestine called the ileum, but can affect any part of the digestive tract.
Any part of the digestive tract can be affected by Crohn's disease, but most often it affects the ileum, which is part of the small intestine.
The ileal interposition procedure involves relocating a short portion of the small intestine known as the ileum further forward in the intestinal tract.
Next in the list is the 'ileum'; but it is difficult to say where the jejunum terminates and the ileum commences, except that the latter is usually one-fifth longer than the former.
Again, the muscle cuts, where there is virtually no risk of BSE, the materials, the brain, spinal cord, distal ileum, which is where the BSE agent resides, those materials did not enter the food supply.
The ileum is shorter, there is no sacculus rotundus, and the large intestine has no caecum, none of the characteristic sacculations of the rabbit's colon, and does not loop back to the stomach before the rectum section commences.