How to Use large intestine in a Sentence

large intestine

noun
Definition of large intestinenext
  • The now solid stool leaves the large intestine and is stored in the rectum.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2023
  • The colon and rectum make up the lower part of the digestive tract, or large intestine.
    — Anne Grauel, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 21 Mar. 2021
  • The colon is the large intestine, which is a tube in the abdomen about 5 feet long that helps move solid stool from the small intestine to the rectum.
    — Andrea K. McDaniels, baltimoresun.com, 7 June 2018
  • An anal hernia is when either the small or large intestines push through fascia and form a bulge in the area near your pelvic organs.
    — Addison Aloian, Women's Health, 15 June 2023
  • What goes on to enter the large intestine, or colon, is the slurried remnants of the food and digestive juices.
    — Bayliss Wagner, USA TODAY, 24 June 2021
  • According to the Mayo Clinic, colon cancer is a growth of cells that begins in a part of the large intestine.
    — Jordan Greene, Peoplemag, 10 June 2024
  • The goal of treatment is to improve health in the gut, specifically the large intestine (colon).
    — Kelly Burch, Health, 12 May 2024
  • According to the Mayo Clinic, a colonoscopy is an exam used to looked for changes in the large intestine (also called the colon) and the rectum.
    — Carlos De Loera, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2022
  • There are trillions of microbes in the body, mainly in the large intestine, and these are referred to as the gut microbiome.
    — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 20 June 2024
  • Most cases start as noncancerous polyps in the lining of the large intestine or the rectum.
    — Consumer Reports, Washington Post, 22 Jan. 2018
  • Her appendix, a thin tube that joins to the large intestine, needed to be removed right away.
    — Laura Garcia, San Antonio Express-News, 26 Dec. 2021
  • The procedure is to reconnect his small and large intestines.
    — Rafael Guerrero, Naperville Sun, 27 Dec. 2017
  • Colonoscopy is the visualization of the large intestine with a tube called a colonoscope.
    — Erika Edwards, NBC News, 4 May 2023
  • In a healthy person, a probe called a colonoscope will be inserted five to six feet into the large intestine.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Gas may also be caused by the breakdown of certain foods in the large intestine by bacteria.
    — Parents Editors, Parents, 23 June 2023
  • It's estimated that about 12% of people in the US have this disorder of the large intestine.
    — Claire Gillespie, Health.com, 5 May 2021
  • Some strains of bacteria also remain in the large intestine around the bowel area.
    — Sakshi Udavant, chicagotribune.com, 1 Mar. 2021
  • Once food reaches your large intestine, the water in the food gets absorbed—that's when the waste products, or anything left over, becomes stool.
    — Colleen Stinchcombe, Health.com, 8 Oct. 2021
  • In the section of the gut where the large intestine connects to the small intestine, the walls were thickened and so swollen that the passage was completely closed off for four or five inches.
    — Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times, 10 Jan. 2024
  • After passing through the stomach and small intestine, the food enters the large intestine.
    — Mythili Devarakonda, USA TODAY, 31 July 2022
  • In fact, by most standards, the dexamethasone result hasn’t even made it all the way through science’s large intestine.
    — Adam Rogers, Wired, 24 June 2020
  • The remaining waste travels to the large intestines (colon), where more water is absorbed, turning the liquid waste into stool.
    — Robert Burakoff, Verywell Health, 8 Sep. 2024
  • The first surgery was cancelled due to infection, the second surgery was more evasive and required a portion of his large intestine to be removed.
    — Amy Drew Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 30 Jan. 2023
  • What Is Colon Cancer? Colon cancer is a disease causing the cells in the large intestine (colon) to grow abnormally.
    — Taylyn Washington-Harmon, Health, 16 Dec. 2023
  • As well as improving the health of the environment in the large intestine, resistant starch impacts the body in other ways.
    — Georgia Day, Vogue, 24 Apr. 2024
  • Holmes was telling people that doctors had removed sixteen feet of his large intestine.
    — Mike Sager, Rolling Stone, 17 Sep. 2021
  • God bless the bodies who can handle that, but even the thought of this is making my large intestine clench into fetal position.
    — Li Goldstein, Bon Appétit, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Appendiceal cancer is a rare form of cancer that affects the appendix, a thin pouch attached to the large intestine.
    — USA TODAY, 10 Jan. 2024
  • The microbiome, of course, is the collection of microorganisms that live throughout the human body, primarily in the small and large intestines.
    — Michal Lev-Ram, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Enzymes in your mouth, stomach and small intestine break down food for absorption, while microbes in your large intestine digest the leftovers.
    — Christopher Damman, Discover Magazine, 12 Sep. 2024

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