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4 unusual facts about intestine


Entero-oxyntin

Entero-oxyntin is a hormone released from intestinal endocrine cells which stimulates gastric acid secretion in the stomach.

Glorious Song

Acquired by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Glorious Song was at his Dalham Hall Stud in Newmarket, England, when she died in July 2003 at age twenty-seven following intestinal surgery.

Kishka

Intestine or gut, in East Slavic languages, also used in English-language Yiddishisms

Ramón Valdés

Valdés also appeared on Chespirito's other hit show, El Chapulín Colorado, usually as Chapulín's antagonist, the famous Tripaseca ("Dry Gut").


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Aodh Méith

The Annals of the Four Masters relate that in 1179 "the churches of Tír Eoghain, from the mountains south, were left desolate, in consequence of war and intestine commotion, famine and distress".

Bowel resection

It may be performed due to cancer, necrosis, enteritis, diverticular disease, or a block in the intestine due to scar tissue.

Calcification

Intake of excessive Vitamin D can cause Vitamin D poisoning and excessive intake of calcium from the intestine, when accompanied by a deficiency of vitamin K (perhaps induced by an anticoagulant such as warfarin).

Dichelyne alatae

Dichelyne alatae is a species of nematode, described on the basis of the worms recovered from the intestine of the whiting, Sillaginopsis panijus from the estuary of the Hooghly River at Kalyani, West Bengal, India.

Drisheen

Irish black pudding is made from a mixture of cow's, pig's and/or sheep's blood, milk, salt, fat and breadcrumbs, which is boiled and sieved and finally cooked using the main intestine of an animal (typically a pig or sheep) as the sausage skin.

Epulopiscium fishelsoni

Epulopiscium was first discovered in 1985 by the Israeli scientist Lev Fishelson from Tel Aviv University, inside the intestines of a brown surgeonfish.

Gal Sone

When an X-ray was performed on her stomach, it appeared to be normal size, but its connection to the small intestine was larger than normal.

Hemolytic disease of the newborn

The Neonatal Fc receptor which in case of humans transfer the maternal antibody from mother through placenta to fetus, in this case is involved in transporting the IgG1 antibodies from mother animal's mammary gland into milk and then again from the ingested milk across the newborn intestine into the newborn animal's circulation.

High School Girls

She has appeared in a story of Eriko's (and the omake manga at the end of the volume 1 manga), where she got acute inflammation of the intestine after drinking bad raw tea.

Ileostomy

Diseases of the large intestine which may require surgical removal include Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, familial adenomatous polyposis, and total colonic Hirschsprung's disease.

Leaky gut

Intestinal permeability, the phenomenon whereby the intestine wall exhibits permeability

Metoclopramide

These gastroprokinetic effects make metoclopramide useful in the treatment of gastric stasis (for example: after gastric surgery or diabetic gastroparesis), as an aid in gastrointestinal radiographic studies by accelerating transit through the gastrointestinal system in barium studies, and as an aid in difficult intubation of the small intestine.

Milk substitute

Lactose intolerance occurs when an individual is deficient in the enzyme lactase; which breaks down the lactose in the intestine.

Nikolai Kulchitsky

In 1897 he described the endocrine cells of the small intestine which now bear his name (Kulchitsky cells).

Sprue

Coeliac disease, also known as sprue, a disease of the small intestine

Villus

Intestinal villus, Intestinal villus refers to any one of the small, finger-shaped outgrowths of the epithelial lining of the wall of the intestine.

Vincenzo Bellini

Heine's comments were prophetic because, just nine months after the premiere of I Puritani, Bellini died in Puteaux, near Paris of acute inflammation of the intestine, and was buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris; his remains were removed to the cathedral of Catania in 1876.

Virtual colonoscopy

Virtual colonoscopy (VC, also called CT Colonography or CT Pneumocolon) is a medical imaging procedure which uses x-rays and computers to produce two- and three-dimensional images of the colon (large intestine) from the lowest part, the rectum, all the way to the lower end of the small intestine and display them on a screen.

Vitamin D-dependent calcium-binding protein

Calbindin-D9k (S100G) is found in mammalian intestine and calbindin-D28k is in avian intestine and in mammalian kidney and other tissues.


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