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- noun Plural form of
intestine .
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Examples
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Some babies do become temporarily lactose intolerant because their intestines are affected by common "stomach flus" - really gastrointestinal ailments - and a much smaller number are affected by more serious problems that damage the delicate lining in their intestines.
Our Greatest Weapon is Fear... Steve Carper 2008
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So, one child with magnets in his intestines might be an accident, but two is a problem for your client.
Bodily Harm Robert Dugoni 2010
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I think our intestines are a murky area for most people.
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The most dramatic was when his doctors thought the "stool ball" in his intestines was a tumor and admitted him to the children's hospital for ultrasounds and cat scans.
Hold The Mustard 2008
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Preservative perseverance in the reeducation of his intestines was the rebuttal by whilk he sort of git the big bulge on the whole bunch of spasoakers, dieting against glues and gra-vies, in that sometime prestreet protown.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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However, when animal and human faeces are used, bacteria excreted in the intestines is the main source of protein.
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As it was, he had lost his buttocks to the bone, his intestines were a mess, he had no bowel control, and his legs were a fragment of bone.
Capitol Card, Orson Scott 1979
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A classification, though necessarily imperfect, will aid in the diagnosis and treatment of the various abnormal conditions of the stomach and intestines, that is, of mal-digestion.
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The perforation of the intestines, which is caused by an ulcer eating its way through the wall of the intestines, is much more dangerous.
Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration Louis Dechmann
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Absorption by the intestines is a most active and complicated process.
A Practical Physiology Albert F. Blaisdell
oroboros commented on the word intestines
A pair isogram.
May 23, 2008