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The simple tubular glands of the small intestines; -- called also crypts of Lieberkühn.

Of or pertaining to the spleen and intestine; as, the lieno- intestinal vein of the frog.

The contents of the fetal intestine; hence, first excrement.

embranes (consisting of a fold of the peritoneum and inclosed tissues), which connect the intestines and their appendages with the dorsal wall of the abdominal cavity. The mesentery proper is connected with the jejunum and ilium, the other mesenteries being called mesoc, mesocolon, mesorectum, etc.

mentary canal from the stomach, or entrance of the bile duct, to, or including, the large intestine.

A griping of the intestines; colic. [Slang] Whose dog lies sick of the mulligrubs Beau. & Fl.

nal, which, in embroys of many vertebrates, connects the medullary tube and the primitive intestine. See Illust. of Ectoderm.

crowding together; a stopping by redundant matter; obstruction, particularly in the lower intestines. Jer. Taylor.

Foreign; not civil or intestine; as, an outward war. [Obs.] Hayward.

The sweetbread, a gland connected with the intestine of nearly all vertebrates. It is usually elongated and light-colored, and its secretion, called the pancreatic juice, is discharged, often together with the bile, into the upper part of the intestines, and is a powerful aid in digestion. See Illust. of Digestive appa…

To go through the intestines. Arbuthnot.

Applied to the peculiar wormlike wave motion of the intestines and other similar structures, produced by the successive contraction of the muscular fibers of their walls, forcing their contents onwards; as, peristaltic movement. -- Per`i*stal"tic*al*ly, adv.

Peristaltic action, especially of the intestines.

Pathches of lymphoid nodules, in the walls of the small intestiness; agminated glands; -- called also Peyer's patches. In typhoid fever they become the seat of ulcers which are regarded as the characteristic organic lesion of that disease.

A division of Turbellaria including those that have an intestine terminating posteriorly.

An intestine; especially, an intestine stuffed with meat, etc.; a sausage. Shak.

To have or produce frequent evacuations from the intestines, as by means of a cathartic.

The opening from the stomach into the intestine.

The terminal part of the large intestine; -- so named because supposed by the old anatomists to be straight. See Illust. under Digestive.

rbellaria including those that have a simple cylindrical, or saclike, stomach, without an intestine.