intestine
/ɪnˈtɛs.tɪn/ nom B2En français : intestin, boyau
- The alimentary canal of an animal through which food passes after having passed all stomachs.
- One of certain subdivisions of this part of the alimentary canal, such as the small or large intestine in human beings.
Pluriel intestines
Dans la bibliothèque
Poisons act particularly on some organ or another—one on the stomach, another on the brain, another on the intestines.
This rabbit dead, the Abbé Adelmonte has its entrails taken out by his cook and thrown on the dunghill; on this dunghill is a hen, who, pecking these intestines, is in her turn taken ill, and dies next day.
Well, then, your guest will be poisoned at the fifth remove, and die, at the end of eight or ten days, of pains in the intestines, sickness, or abscess of the pylorus.
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