The large intestine—which includes the cecum, colon, rectum, and anus—is a key part of the digestive system. It's a long, thin organ at the end of your digestive tract where your body produces ...

What's left of the food goes into your large intestine. And guess what? It's about 15 feet shorter than the small intestine. Ironic, huh? But at three to four inches around, it's wider ...

If you've been personally victimized by that weird, rain-stick like noise in the back of your neck, you might want to read ...

The first of three sections of the small intestine, the duodenum, produces large quantities of mucus to protect the intestinal lining from acid in the chyme. Measuring about 20 feet (6 meters ...

Partially digested food arrives in the intestine from the stomach. Digested food is absorbed in the small intestine. This means that it passes through the wall of the small intestine and into the ...

Partially digested food arrives in the intestine from the stomach. Digested food is absorbed in the small intestine. This means that it passes through the wall of the small intestine and into the ...

New Delhi: A live cockroach measuring 3 centimeters was successfully removed from the small intestine of a 23-year-old man at ...

Plant polysaccharides of dietary origin are a major energy source for the dense anaerobic microbial communities that inhabit the mammalian large intestine and rumen. Microbial fermentation ...

A live cockroach was removed from a 23-year-old man's small intestine at Fortis Hospital in New Delhi using advanced endoscopic techniques. The patient, who had consumed street food, experienced ...

Dr. Vatsya said the cockroach - 3 cm in size, was lying live in the patient’s small intestine. He said that had the cockroach died, it would have disintegrated – aggravating the patient’s ...

A live cockroach measuring 3 centimeters was successfully removed from the small intestine of a 23-year-old man at a private hospital here, officials said on Friday. The procedure, which took 10 ...