How to Use large intestine in a Sentence

large intestine

noun
  • The colon is part of the large intestine.
    — Catherine Dominguez, Houston Chronicle, 12 Feb. 2026
  • But food that has not yet made it down to your large intestines will still be in your system.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 15 Aug. 2024
  • The now solid stool leaves the large intestine and is stored in the rectum.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2023
  • The descending colon is part of the large intestine and runs down the left side of the abdomen.
    — Lindsay Curtis, Health, 22 Dec. 2024
  • The process stimulates the vagus nerve, which runs from the large intestine to the brain.
    — Rustin Dodd, New York Times, 1 May 2025
  • When these compounds reach the large intestine, gut bacteria break them down.
    — Lindsey Desoto, Health, 6 Jan. 2026
  • The vagus nerve is one of the body’s longest nerves, running from your brain all the way to your large intestine.
    — Clarissa Brincat, Popular Science, 25 Sep. 2025
  • It is caused by a type of bacteria that produces toxins in the large intestine.
    — CNN Money, 9 Nov. 2025
  • The procedure is to reconnect his small and large intestines.
    — Rafael Guerrero, Naperville Sun, 27 Dec. 2017
  • The colon and rectum make up the lower part of the digestive tract, or large intestine.
    — Anne Grauel, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 21 Mar. 2021
  • The appendix is a small pouch that hangs off the large intestine on the lower right side of the abdomen.
    — Linda Carroll, NBC news, 9 June 2025
  • The appendix is a small pouch branching off the first section of the large intestine.
    — Lilia Goncharova, The Conversation, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Her appendix, a thin tube that joins to the large intestine, needed to be removed right away.
    — Laura Garcia, San Antonio Express-News, 26 Dec. 2021
  • An anal hernia is when either the small or large intestines push through fascia and form a bulge in the area near your pelvic organs.
    — Addison Aloian, Women's Health, 15 June 2023
  • There are more bacteria in the large intestine than in the small intestine.
    — Amber J. Tresca, Verywell Health, 16 May 2025
  • This may trigger your intestines to contract and move your stool rapidly through the large intestine.
    — Lindsay Curtis, Health, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Holmes was telling people that doctors had removed sixteen feet of his large intestine.
    — Mike Sager, Rolling Stone, 17 Sep. 2021
  • Gas may also be caused by the breakdown of certain foods in the large intestine by bacteria.
    — Parents Editors, Parents, 23 June 2023
  • This time, not only her small intestines, but also her large intestines, pancreas, and liver.
    — Chilekasi Adele, CBS News, 16 Dec. 2025
  • Most cases start as noncancerous polyps in the lining of the large intestine or the rectum.
    — Consumer Reports, Washington Post, 22 Jan. 2018
  • In a healthy person, a probe called a colonoscope will be inserted five to six feet into the large intestine.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 15 Aug. 2024
  • The researchers further tested the approach in vivo in the large intestine of a rat.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 1 Jan. 2026
  • What goes on to enter the large intestine, or colon, is the slurried remnants of the food and digestive juices.
    — Bayliss Wagner, USA TODAY, 24 June 2021
  • Some strains of bacteria also remain in the large intestine around the bowel area.
    — Sakshi Udavant, chicagotribune.com, 1 Mar. 2021
  • The goal of treatment is to improve health in the gut, specifically the large intestine (colon).
    — Kelly Burch, Health, 12 May 2024
  • Colonoscopy is the visualization of the large intestine with a tube called a colonoscope.
    — Erika Edwards, NBC News, 4 May 2023
  • Massage in a clockwise, circular pattern along the path of your large intestine.
    — Julie Marks, Verywell Health, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Massage in a clockwise, circular pattern along the path of your large intestine.
    — Julie Marks, Verywell Health, 21 Apr. 2026
  • The colon makes up the first several feet of the large intestine, while the remaining portion forms the rectum.
    — Miriam Fauzia, Dallas Morning News, 19 Mar. 2026
  • The disease begins with the formation of benign polyps in the body's large intestine, also known as the colon.
    — Alyssa Goldberg, USA Today, 12 Feb. 2026

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