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The pulpy mass of semi-digested food in the small intestines just after its passage from the stomach. It is separated in the intestines into chyle and excrement. See Chyle.

A liquid injected into the lower intestines by means of a syringe; an injection; an enema. Clyster pipe, a tube or pipe used for injections.

ugh the bile duct. -- Intestinal colic, or Ordinary colic, pain due to distention of the intestines by gas. -- Lead colic, Painter's colic, a violent form of intestinal colic, associated with obstinate constipation, produced by chronic lead poisoning. -- Renal colic, the severe pain produced by the passage of a calc…

An inflammation of the large intestine, esp. of its mucous membrane; colonitis.

That part of the large intestines which extends from the cæcum to the rectum.

uners. Comma bacillus (Physiol.), a variety of bacillus shaped like a comma, found in the intestines of patients suffering from cholera. It is considered by some as having a special relation to the disease; -- called also cholera bacillus. -- Comma butterfly (Zoöl.), an American butterfly (Grapta comma), having a whit…

A state of the bowels in which the evacuations are infrequent and difficult, or the intestines become filled with hardened faces; costiveness.

lmonary consumption. Consumption of the bowels (Med.), inflammation and ulceration of the intestines from tubercular disease.

An irregular, tortuous folding of an organ or part; as, the convolutions of the intestines; the cerebral convolutions. See Brain.

A morbidly frequent and profuse discharge of loose or fluid evacuations from the intestines, without tenesmus; a purging or looseness of the bowels; a flux.

The conversion of food, in the stomach and intestines, into soluble and diffusible products, capable of being absorbed by the blood.

Of or pertaining to a nation considered as a family or home, or to one's own country; intestine; not foreign; as, foreign wars and domestic dissensions. Shak.

The part of the small intestines between the stomach and the jejunum. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus, under Digestive.

Pain in the intestines; colic.

An inflammation of the intestines. Hoblyn.

A hernial tumor whose contents are intestine.

A treatise upon, or description of, the intestines; enterology.

Disease of the intestines.

Incision of the intestines, especially in reducing certain cases of hernia.

The internal parts of animal bodies; the bowels; the guts; viscera; intestines.