jejunum
IPA: dʒˈɛdʒˈunʌm
noun
- (anatomy) The central of the three divisions of the small intestine which lies between the duodenum and the ileum
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Examples of "jejunum" in Sentences
- Differences between jejunum and ileum.
- They are mainly located in the jejunum.
- This page needs the function of the jejunum.
- It is located between the stomach and the jejunum.
- The jejunum lies between the duodenum and the ileum.
- Foreign bodies in the jejunum are removed by enterotomy.
- Jejunostomy refers to an artificial opening into the jejunum.
- There is no line of demarcation between the jejunum and the ileum.
- A one cm segment of jejunum was resected at the ligament of Treitz.
- Arterial arcades are loops of arteries around the jejunum and ileum.
- This tube goes through the stomach and into the small intestine (jejunum).
- The next of the small intestines is the 'jejunum', so called from its being generally empty.
- The next portion of the intestine is called the jejunum, because it is usually empty after death.
- This "jejunum intervention" seems to have worked, but it's changed the way Rueffert will eat forever.
- If a gastrojejunostomy tube is needed, x-ray guidance is used to help place the tube into the jejunum.
- A nasojejunal, or NJ, tube is a small tube that is passed through the nose and guided into the jejunum (small bowel).
- Doctors connected a part of his intestines called the jejunum to the very top of his esophagus, circumventing the idea of a stomach entirely.
- After numbing gel is placed on the nose a small tube will be guided down the nose and into the jejunum (small bowel) using fluoroscopic (x-ray) guidance.
- And thus it is that, in all such animals as we are now considering, there is found what is called the jejunum; which is a part of the small gut, of the gut, that is, which comes next to the stomach.
- The three small intestines are the duodenum, the jejunum, and the ileum; the duodenum commences at the pylorus, and is continued into the jejunum, which is so called from its being generally found empty: the ileum is only a prolongation of the jejunum, and terminates in the first of the great intestines, called the caecum.
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