Intestine

Noun

 * 1)  The alimentary canal of an animal through which food passes after having passed all stomachs.
 * 2) One of certain subdivisions of this part of the alimentary canal, such as the small or large intestine in human beings.

Synonyms

 * bowel
 * gut

Derived terms

 * intestinal
 * gastrointestinal
 * large intestine
 * small intestine

Adjective

 * 1) Domestic; taking place within a given country or region.
 * 2) * 1615, Ralph Hamor, A True Discourse of the Present State of Virginia, Richmond 1957, p. 2:
 * It being true that now after fiue yeeres intestine warre with the reuengefull implacable Indians, a firme peace (not againe easily to be broken) hath bin lately concluded [...].
 * 1) * 1776, Edward Gibbon, The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, ch. 1,
 * Yet the success of Trajan, however transient, was rapid and specious. The degenerate Parthians, broken by intestine discord, fled before his arms.
 * 1)  Internal.
 * 2) *1603, John Florio, trans. Michel de Montaigne, Essays, I.41:
 * When you have alleaged all the reasons you can, and beleeved all to disavow and reject her, she produceth, contrarie to your discourses, so intestine inclination, that you have small hold against her.

Verbs for Intestine
afflict—; attach to—; attack—; block—; clog—; constrict—; distend—; ferment in—; penetrate—; poison—; puncture—; obstruct —; putrefy in—; strangle—; twist—; —absorbs; —adheres; —coils; —discharges; — functions; —kinks; —mats; —provides.

Thesaurus
Eustachian tube, Fallopian tube, abatis, abdomen, anus, bowels, brain, brains, canal, cecum, chitterlings, cockscomb, colon, duct, duodenum, emunctory, endocardium, entrails, fistula, foregut, giblets, gizzard, guts, haslet, heart, hindgut, home, inland, innards, inner mechanism, inside, insides, interior, internal, internals, intestines, inward, inwards, jejunum, kidney, kidneys, kishkes, large intestine, liver, liver and lights, lung, marrow, meatus, midgut, municipal, national, native, ostium, oviduct, perineum, pore, pump, pylorus, rectum, salpinx, small intestine, spleen, stomach, sweetbread, thoracic duct, ticker, tongue, tripe, tripes, ureter, urethra, vagina, vas, vermiform appendix, vessel, viscera, vitals, works

Etymology 1
From intestinum:, neuter of intestinus:, as Etymology 2, below.

Etymology 2
From intestinus:, from intus:.

Noun

 * Arabic: أمعاء, مصير
 * Armenian:
 * Catalan: intestí, budell
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 肠管,  ,
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 * Georgian: ნაწლავი, კუჭ-ნაწლავი
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 * Icelandic: görn
 * Irish:
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 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean: 창자 (changja), 배알 (baeal)
 * Latvian: zarnas
 * Lithuanian: žarnos
 * Macedonian:
 * Mongolian: гэдэс
 * Norwegian: tarm, tarmer
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 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: caolan, greallach , mionach , innidh
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 * Thai: ลำไส้
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük: ninäm
 * Welsh: coluddyn


 * Arabic: أمعاء, مصير
 * Armenian:
 * Catalan: intestí, budell
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 肠管,  ,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: ნაწლავი, კუჭ-ნაწლავი
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish:


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean: 창자 (changja), 배알 (baeal)
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian:
 * Norwegian: tarm, tarmer
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: caolan, greallach , mionach , innidh
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish: ,
 * Thai: ลำไส้
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük: ninäm
 * Volapük: ninäm

Adjective

 * German: innere (2)

Adjective
intestine