Duodenum

Quick meaning: Duodenum is a noun meaning (anatomy) The first part of the small intestine, starting at the lower end of the stomach and extending to the jejunum.

Meaning

(anatomy) The first part of the small intestine, starting at the lower end of the stomach and extending to the jejunum.

Example Sentences

Duodenums were dissected out, fixed and photographed.

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 Inteſtina tenuia were burnt in many places, but not quite through any where, excepting two or three. […] The length of that which is commonly call'd the Duodenum, was about 4½ Foot.

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 meets with the bile, pancreatic and intestinal fluids, loses its acid properties, and becomes alkaline, probably by the agency of the soda of the bile; […]

Word Forms

• duodena
• duodenums

Synonyms for duodenum

Depending on context, synonyms include dodecadactylum, maw-gut.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include proximal, distal, mesoduodenum, gastroduodenum, duodenoenterostomy, pylorus.

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