Sentences with 'intestines'
Example sentences and phrases with the word intestines and other words derived from it.
• « Easily absorbed from the intestines, glucose absorption leads to pancreatic secretion of insulin, which helps transport it to the tissues. »
• « Much of the human body - almost 30 per cent - is made up of connective tissue, the material that lines muscles, holds the intestines in place and provides much of the substance of the lungs, walls of the intestines, tendons and ligaments. »
• « Thus transformed by the stomach, the food is received by the intestines. From there, digestion continues and only those substances that the body needs are absorbed into the bloodstream (absorption). The rest is excreted (excretion). »
• « The blood carries to the cells the substances necessary for life: food from the intestines and oxygen from the lungs. »