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the convolutions placed between the preceding four groups have 

 no definite orientation. 1 



Forty-one per cent, of the total length of the intestinum tenue 

 mesenteriale is situated in the abdomen to the left of the median 



FIG. 253. 



Course of the intestine. This figure is taken from a model made from the same cadaver from which 

 Figs. 251 and 252 were drawn. (After Mall, ibid., Plate v., Fig. 18.) 



sagittal plane, eighteen per cent, to the right of it, and forty-one 

 per cent, within the pelvis. 



1 For a full discussion concerning the arrangement of the intestinal loops, 

 consult Mall, F. P., The Development of the Human Intestine, Bulletin of Johns 

 Hopkins Hospital, 1898; Archiv f. Anat., 1897; Sernoff, Zur Kenntniss d. 

 Diinndarms, Intern. Monatschr. f. Anat., 1894. 



