Meanings (ES + gloss)
duodeno
The first part of the small intestine, starting at the lower end of the stomach and extending to the jejunum.
The duodena open into a common pouch just below the entrance of the gall-ducts. The intestine was single from the confluence of the duodena to the termination of the jejunum.
The duodenum receives the chyme from the stomach, and has generally been believed to accomplish the second digestion, or the conversion of chyme into chyle. In the duodenum it meet…
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