SMALL AND LARGE INTESTINE 



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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 



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4L — Different forms of the stomach in Mammals. A, Dog ; B, Mns decumanus ; 

 C, 3Ius musadus ; D, Weasel ; E, scheme of the Rummant stomach, the arrow 

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

 a. Minor curvature ; &, major curvature ; c, cardiac end. G, Oamel ; H, Edtiihut 

 OA^uleata. Ct)ia, Major curvature ; Cvil, minor curvature. I, Uradijptis iridaciyius. 

 f)n. Duodenum ; J//>. coecal diverticulum ; **, outgrowths of duodenum ; f, re- 

 ticulum ; +t, rumen. ^1 (in E and G), Abomasum ; C'«, cardiac division ; (), 

 psalterium ; Oe, oesophagus ; P, pylorus : ij (to the right iu E and to the left iu G), 

 rumen ;' R (to the left in E and to the right in G), reticulum ; -SV, cardiac 

 division; &p^ pyloric division; WZ^ water-cells. (From Wiedersheim's i*i>in- 

 paraiive Anotmny.) 



the latter ; in I'urtKhyxm'ua, for instance, the small intestine 

 may be fifteen times the length of the large. The excn^'^s of 

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



