Berikut adalah kumpulan contoh kalimat dalam bahasa Inggris yang menggunakan atau mengandung kata "Intestine":
- Germs only cause disease, right? But a common bacterium, E. Coli, found in the intestine helps us digest green vegetables and beans (also making gases – pew!). These same bacteria also make vitamin K, which causes blood to clot. If we didn't have these germs we would bleed to death whenever we got a small cut!
- In a healthy adult, the small intestine can range between 18 and 23 feet long, about four times longer than the person is tall.
- In a human body, the small intestine is 21 feet and the large intestine is 6 feet long.
- At about five feet in length, the large intestine is shorter than the small intestine. However, it is more spacious so it can store and process material that will be eliminated.
- About 90% of the body's nutrients are absorbed into the bloodstream in the small intestine.
- About 90% of what we eat is assimilated in the small intestine.
- Most of the digestion and absorption of food nutrients actually takes place in the small intestine. The stomach passes on a thick liquid called chyme and enzymes continue to break this down in the small intestine which absorbs the nutrients into the bloodstream.
- The largest internal organ is the small intestine.
- The pancreas secretes enzymes for use by the small intestine.
- In an average person, it takes 8 seconds for food to travel down the food pipe, 3-5 hours in the small intestine and 3-4 days in the large intestine.
- The pancreas also releases a fluid that contains bicarbonate - basically, baking soda. This helps to balance, or neutralize, the acids coming into the intestine from the stomach.
- The Meguro Museum of Parasitology in Tokyo, Japan, displays only parasites and has 45,000 specimens. Museum visitors can even have their picture taken with a 30-foot-long tapeworm taken from a man's intestine.
- A human's small intestine is 6 meters long.
- The small intestine is composed of a duodenum, jejunum, and ileum.
- For every 24 hours, in a healthy adult, more than a gallon of water containing over an ounce of salt is absorbed from the intestine.
- On average, the human adult male's small intestine is 6.9 m (22 ft 6 in) long, and the female's 7.1 m (23 ft 4 in).
- The large intestine includes the cecum, appendix, colon, and rectum. It is the final part of the digestive system. It absorbs water from the remaining indigestible food matter, and passes any un-needed waste from the body.
- The large intestine is approximately 1.5 m (4.9 ft) long.
- On average, adults have 22 feet (6.7 m) of small intestine, 5 feet (1.5 m) of large intestine.
- The largest internal organ is the small intestine. Despite being called the smaller of the two intestines, your small intestine is actually four times as long as the average adult is tall. If it weren't looped back and forth upon itself it wouldn't fit inside the abdominal cavity.
