duodenum

(If you imagine a vertical line connecting the two orifices, the duodenum sits very roughly at the midpoint; on the other hand, if you consider the actual route that food takes through the entire twisting length of the digestive system, then the duodenum is actually much closer to the mouth than to the anus.)

Matthew Yglesias » Stay Classy, Conservative Blogosphere 2007

And, as has been pointed out by ‘mark’, the duodenum is that part of the small intestine between the stomach and the large intestine – a long way from any body openings.

Matthew Yglesias » Stay Classy, Conservative Blogosphere 2007

[*] As I noted above, Ace’s post was ambiguous as to whether the jackhammer cock’s approach to the duodenum is per orem or per anum. anon E. mouse Says:

Matthew Yglesias » Stay Classy, Conservative Blogosphere 2007

B biliary tree - a series of ducts that transport bile from the liver — where it's manufactured — to the small intestine (also called the duodenum), which uses bile to digest food. bile - a yellow-green liquid produced in the liver.

Glossary of liver transplant terms 2009

In the narrow space between the stomach and the duodenum is the elongated pancreas, _pan_, opening by two or more short ducts into the duodenum.

Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator C. M. [Illustrator] Reese

—The arteries supplying the duodenum are the right gastric and superior pancreaticoduodenal branches of the hepatic, and the inferior pancreaticoduodenal branch of the superior mesenteric.

XI. Splanchnology. 2g. The Small Intestine 1918

There is no coiling small intestine, but the short portion, receiving the bile duct (b.d.) and duct of the pancreas (pan.), is called the duodenum (d'dum.).

Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata 1906

Its chief function is to absorb the peptonised fluid mass of food, or the chyle, and it is subdivided into several sections, of which the first (next to the stomach) is called the duodenum (Figure 2.349 fgh).

The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876

It is of an oblong form, and appears to be for the purpose of containing the bile, until the proper time for it to be thrown into the stomach: -- the bile is conveyed from the gall bladder into the first portion of the small intestines, called duodenum, and from thence into the stomach.

The Cherokee Physician, or Indian Guide to Health, as Given by Richard Foreman, a Cherokee Doctor; Comprising a Brief View of Anatomy, With General Rules for Preserving Health without the Use of Medicines. The Diseases of the U. States, with Their Symptoms, Causes, and Means of Prevention, are Treated on in a Satisfactory Manner. It Also Contains a Description of a Variety of Herbs and Roots, Many of which are not Explained in Any Other Book, and their Medical Virtues have Hitherto been Unknown to the Whites; To which is Added a Short Dispensatory. Richard Foreman 1849

Since the pancreas is so close to the small intestine, there are many ducts streaming from its head to carry the enzymes to the duodenum, which is the beginning of the intestine.

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