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Duodenum   Listen
noun
Duodenum  n.  (Anat.) The part of the small intestines between the stomach and the jejunum.






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"Duodenum" Quotes from Famous Books



... in the words of Dr. Mason Good, "it ranges through a wide spread of organs closely sympathizing with each other, and each, when disordered, giving rise to dyspepsia." After the formation of chyme, and the food has passed the pyloric orifice of the stomach, it undergoes a new process in the duodenum, when it is converted into chyle, probably by the action of the bile, although this is a point not absolutely determined by physiological experiment; even now, digestion is only half finished, the lacteals (a class of absorbing ...
— The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 • Various

... discoveries, and some of the names he gave to parts of the body are now in use, for instance, torcular Herophili, calamus scriptorius, and duodenum. He described the connection between the nerves and the brain, and the various parts of the brain, and recognized the essential difference between motor and sensory nerves, although he thought the former arose in the membranes and the latter in the substance of the brain. ...
— Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine • James Sands Elliott

... internal work of digestion, so feebly begun in the bill, an extremely large liver pours torrents of bile into the duodenum, and the manufacture of chyle proceeds with that wild rapidity which characterizes all the living actions of birds. But speaking of this liver, I think I ought to give you an account of a celebrated dish, considered a great dainty ...
— The History of a Mouthful of Bread - And its effect on the organization of men and animals • Jean Mace



Words linked to "Duodenum" :   small intestine, duodenal



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