Intestinal

{in - tes’ ’- tin - al) [intestinum, the intestine]. Pertaining to the intestine. I. Absorption, the absorption of the products of digestion by the capillaries, veins, and lacteals of the mucous membrane of the intestines. I.Anastomosis. See Anastomosis. I. Canal, the entire intestinal pa age from the beginning of the duodenum to the anus. I. Concretion. See Enterolith. I. Juice,. succus enteric us, the secretion of the intestinal glands, a pale-yellow fluid, alkaline in reaction, having a specific gravity of ion, INTESTINE and po e ing diastatic and proteolytic properties. It also, to a certain extent, emulsifies and decomposes fats. 339