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The contents of the right crural hernia are formed by either the small intestine, T, or the intestinum caecum, S***.
Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise
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The Jejunum (intestinum jejunum) is wider, its diameter being about 4 cm., and is thicker, more vascular, and of a deeper color than the ileum, so that a given length weighs more.
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The Cecum (intestinum cæcum) (Fig. 1073), the commencement of the large intestine, is the large blind pouch situated below the colic valve.
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The Rectum (intestinum rectum) (Fig. 1077) is continuous above with the sigmoid colon, while below it ends in the anal canal.
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The Ileum (intestinum ileum) is narrow, its diameter being 3.75 cm., and its coats thinner and less vascular than those of the jejunum.
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And all depends on the centre of my microcosm -- intestinum colon -- which plays me a trick every now and then.
Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2 Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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Meanwhile, divers of the company had joined the butcher, and, while some were greedily feeding upon liver and gall, others helped themselves to marrow-bones, "boudins," and intestinum medulæ,
ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIFE 1841
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Another seat of schirrus is in the membranous parts of the system, as of the rectum intestinum, the urethra, the gula or throat; and of this kind is the verucca or wart, and the clavus pedum, or corns on the toes.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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The rectum intestinum, like the urinary bladder in the preceding article, possesses voluntary power of motion; though these volitions are at times uncontrollable by the will, when the acrimony of the contained feces, or their bulk, stimulate it to a greater degree.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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M. Pontedera believes it designed to lubricate the vegetable uterus, and compares the horn-like nectaries of some flowers to the appendicle of the caecum intestinum of animals.
The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation Erasmus Darwin 1766
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