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is the varying proportion of the small to the large intestine. 
As a general rule the former is very considerably longer than 
Oe 
Fra. 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 ; 6, major curvature ; c, cardiac end. G, Camel; H, Echidna 
aculeata. Cma, Major curvature ; Cmi, minor curvature. I, Bradypus tridactylus. 
Du, Duodenum ; JZB, coecal diverticulum ; **, outgrowths of duodenum ; +, re- 
ticulum ; +f, rumen. A (in E and G), Abomasum; Ca, cardiac division ; 0, 
psalterium ; Oe, oesophagus ; P, pylorus ; & (to the right in E and to the left in G), 
rumen; (to the left in E and to the right in G), reticulum; Sc, cardiac 
division ; Sp, pyloric division; WZ, water-cells. (From Wiedersheim’s Cow- 
parative Anatomy.) 
the latter; in Paradoxwrus, 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 
