How a Healthy Bowel Works?
Terms explanation:
- The GUT refers to the complete digestive tract from the mouth to the anus.
- The BOWEL consists of small intestine (and this from duodenum, jejunum and ileum), and from large intestine (and this from cecum, appendix, colon, and rectum)
- The STOMACH is an organ lying between esophagus (gullet) and duodenum; stomach also refers to the whole abdomen.
Bowel anatomy (Picture 1). The stomach lies right below the bottom end of the breastbone. The small intestine (duodenum, jejunum and ileum) fills up the most of the abdominal cavity. The large intestine starts in the lower right abdomen with the appendix, runs up as the ascending colon toward the liver, then as the transverse colon below the stomach, then on the left side down as the descending colon, in the pelvis it widens into the sigmoid colon, and ends as the rectum and the anal opening (anus).
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