SMALL AND LARGE INTESTINE 



is the varying proportion of the small to the large intestine. 

 As a general rule the former is very considerably longer than 



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FIG. 41. Different forms of the stomach in Mammals. A, Dog ; B, Mus decumanus ; 

 C, Mus musculus ; D, Weasel; E, scheme of the Ruminant stomach, the arrow 

 with the dotted line showing the course taken by the food ; F, Human stomach, 

 a, Minor curvature ; b, major curvature ; c, cardiac end. G, Camel ; H, Ediidna 

 uculeata. Oma, Major curvature ; Cmi, minor curvature. I, Bradypus tridactylus. 

 Du, Duodenum ; MB, coecal diverticulum ; **, outgrowths of duodenum ; f, re- 

 ticulum ; tf> rumen. A (in E and G), Abomasum ; (7a, cardiac division ; O, 

 psalterium ; OK, oesophagus ; P, pylorus : R (to the right in E and to the left in G), 

 rumen ; R (to the leQ; in E and to the right in G), reticulum ; Sc, cardiac 

 division; Sp, pyloric division; 1\'Z, water-cells. (From Wiedersheim's Own'- 

 parative Anatomy.) 



the latter ; in Paradoxnrus, for instance, the small intestine 

 may be fifteen times the length of the large. The excess of 

 length of one section over .the other is not generally so marked 



