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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.

Of or pertaining to the stomach and intestines; gastroenteric.

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

Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the intestine.

A group of intestinal worms, having the proboscis armed with recurved spines.

When present in large numbers they produce a severe anæmia by sucking the blood from the intestinal walls. Called also miner's anæmia, tunnel disease, brickmaker's anæmia, Egyptian chlorosis.

Good against intestinal worms. -- An anthelmintic remedy. [Written also anthelminthic.]

Opposed to, or checking motion; acting upward; -- applied to an inverted action of the intestinal tube.

ccompanied by colicky pains and diarrhea, caused by the presence of ascarids in the gastrointestinal canal.

A white crystalline powder used as an intestinal antiseptic; beta-naphthol benzoate.

Guaiacol benzoate, used as an intestinal antiseptic and as a substitute for creosote in phthisis. It is a colorless crystalline pewder.

cia usually have a wreath of tentacles around the mouth, and a well developed stomach and intestinal canal; but these parts are lacking in the other zooids (Avicularia, Ooecia, etc.).

One of several diseases affecting the digestive and intestinal tract and more or less dangerous to life, esp. the one commonly called Asiatic cholera. Asiatic cholera, a malignant and rapidly fatal disease, originating in Asia and frequently epidemic in the more filthy sections of other lands, to which the germ or spec…

a state of emulsion, or fine mechanical division; formed from chyme by the action of the intestinal juices. It is absorbed by the lacteals, and conveyed into the blood by the thoracic duct.

The common chamber into which the intestinal, urinary, and generative canals discharge in birds, reptiles, amphibians, and many fishes.

d by the passage of a gallstone from the liver or gall bladder through 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.…

A treatise upon, or description of, the intestinal glands.

Of or pertaining to the enteron, or alimentary canal; intestinal. Enteric fever (Med.), typhoid fever.

An intestinal concretion.

The operation of sewing up a rent in the intestinal canal.