Stock Photo - SMALL INTESTINE, DRAWING<BR>In man, the small bowel, which begins with the duodenum at the pyloric opening of the stomach and terminates into the large bowel, is approxima-tely 7 meters long. The longest part of the small intestine is freely folded within the abdominal cavity and only attached to the posterior abdominal wall by a membranous extension of the peritoneum called the mesentery.

Stock Photo: SMALL INTESTINE, DRAWING<BR>In man, the small bowel, which begins with the duodenum at the pyloric opening of the stomach and terminates into the large bowel.

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