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  2. Gastrointestinal wall - Wikipedia

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    This structure consists of connective tissue covered by a simple squamous epithelium, called the mesothelium, which reduces frictional forces during digestive movements. The intraperitoneal regions include most of the stomach, first part of the duodenum, all of the small intestine, caecum and appendix, transverse colon, sigmoid colon and rectum ...

  3. Gastrointestinal tract - Wikipedia

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    Inflammatory bowel disease is an inflammatory condition affecting the bowel walls, and includes the subtypes Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. While Crohn's can affect the entire gastrointestinal tract, ulcerative colitis is limited to the large intestine. Crohn's disease is widely regarded as an autoimmune disease. Although ulcerative ...

  4. Human feces - Wikipedia

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    Human feces photographed in a toilet, shortly after defecation.. Human feces (American English) or faeces (British English), commonly and in medical literature more often called stool, [1] are the solid or semisolid remains of food that could not be digested or absorbed in the small intestine of humans, but has been further broken down by bacteria in the large intestine.

  5. Defecation - Wikipedia

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    Defecation is the most common regular bowel movement which eliminates waste from the human body. The frequency of defecation is hard to identify, which can vary from daily to weekly depending on individual bowel habits, the impact from the environment and genetic. [ 7 ]

  6. Motility - Wikipedia

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    amoeboid movement, a crawling-like movement, which also makes swimming possible [17] [18] filopodia , enabling movement of the axonal growth cone [ 19 ] flagellar motility , a swimming-like motion (observed for example in spermatozoa , propelled by the regular beat of their flagellum , or the E. coli bacterium, which swims by rotating a helical ...

  7. Feces - Wikipedia

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    "Feces" is used more in biology and medicine than in other fields (reflecting science's tradition of classical Latin and Neo-Latin) In hunting and tracking, terms such as dung, scat, spoor, and droppings normally are used to refer to non-human animal feces; In husbandry and farming, manure is common. Stool is a common term in reference to human ...

  8. Human digestive system - Wikipedia

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    Crohn's disease is a common chronic inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), which can affect any part of the GI tract, [44] but it mostly starts in the terminal ileum. Ulcerative colitis, an ulcerative form of colitis, is the other major inflammatory bowel disease which

  9. Descending colon - Wikipedia

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    While the first part of the large intestine is responsible for the absorption of water and other substances from the chyme, the main function of the descending colon is to store waste until it can be removed from the body in solid form, when a person has a bowel movement. The stools gradually solidify as they move along into the descending colon.