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A wound, of large extent, in the abdomen, through which the greater part of the intestines protrude.

To turn outwards, or inside out, as an intestine.

Intestine motion; heat; tumult; agitation. Subdue and cool the ferment of desire. Rogers. the nation is in a ferment. Walpole. in a ferment in a state of agitation, applied to human groups.

The anterior part of the alimentary canal, from the mouth to the intestine, o

Inflammation of the lining membrane of the stomach and the intestines.

Of or pertaining to the stomach and intestines; gastroenteric.

t gold into gold leaf. -- Gold beater's skin, the prepared outside membrane of the large intestine of the ox, used for separating the leaves of metal during the process of gold-beating. -- Gold beetle (Zoöl.), any small gold-colored beetle of the family Chrysomelidæ; -- called also golden beetle. -- Gold blocking, p…

icularly in the digestive organs. It may also attack internal organs, as the stomach, the intestines, etc. Dunglison.

Pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines; -- chiefly used in the plural.

The posterior part of the alimentary canal, including the rectum, and sometimes the large intestine also.

A concretion, or kind of bezoar, from the intestines of the horse.

lon; as, the ileocolic, or ileocæcal, valve, a valve where the ileum opens into the large intestine.

The last, and usually the longest, division of the small intestine; the part between the jejunum and large intestine. [Written also ileon, and ilium.]

mpaction of the fetal head in the strait of the pelvis; impaction of food or feces in the intestines of man or beast.

Of or pertaining to the intestines of an animal; as, the intestinal tube; intestinal digestion; intestinal ferments. Intestinal canal. Same as Intestine, n. -- Intestinal worm (Zoöl.), any species of helminth living in the intestinal canal of any animal. The species are numerous.

iguous part of it; specifically, the reception or slipping of the upper part of the small intestine into the lower; introsusception; invagination. Dunglison.

he inversion of cane suger, producing invert sugar. It is found in many plants and in the intestines of animals.

The middle division of the small intestine, between the duodenum and ileum; -- so called because usually found empty after death.

One of the lymphatic vessels which convey chyle from the small intestine through the mesenteric glands to the thoracic duct; a chyliferous vessel.

Having the effect of loosening or opening the intestines, and relieving from constipation; -- opposed to astringent. -- n. (Med.)