Word: jejunum
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Dates: during 1932-1932
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...gall-bladder and pancreas. Those juices with the help of the duodenum's own alkaline secretions (mainly sodium bicarbonate), reduce the sour chyme's acidity. While this chemistry is going on, the duodenum pumps the mix forward into the next section of the intestine, the 8 ft. jejunum. During passage through the jejunum the alkalinization of the chyme ordinarily completes itself. The chyme becomes chyle, a creamy, nourishing substance which, while welling through more yardage of intestine, passes into the blood through lymphatic structure called lacteals...
Peptic ulcers occur in the stomach, duodenum and jejunum. Those parts of the anatomy are to the surgeon what a washbowl, water trap and waste pipe are to a master plumber. The surgeon can remove parts of the stomach, duodenum and jejunum. He can remove any one of them entirely if necessary. In extremity he can take all three out and keep the patient alive for a time by fluids through rectum or veins. But the surgeon's ordinary plumbing for peptic ulcer is to cut out the diseased section of stomach, or diseased length of duodenum or jejunum...