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the middle gut that fasting Romans named for how empty they always found it.
means The middle section of the small intestine, between the duodenum and the ileum, where most nutrient absorption happens.
from From Latin jejunum, the neuter of jejunus, meaning "fasting" or "empty." Early anatomists, dissecting bodies, kept finding this stretch of gut empty — its contents already pushed onward — so they named it for that emptiness. The same Latin root for fasting also feeds the word "jejune" (meaning dry or insubstantial), and survives in French déjeuner and Spanish desayuno — literally to "un-fast," to break the empty stomach with a meal.
- latin roots
- Jejunus means fasting or hungry in Latin
- length
- Roughly eight feet of coiled absorption machinery
- surface trick
- Folds and fingers multiply its area enormously
- nutrient hub
- Most of your food gets absorbed here
- always empty
- Found drained in corpses, hence the name
jejunum of humans — middle section of small intestine, approximately 2.5 meters long, where most nutrient absorption occurs
jejunum of dogs — proportionally longer small intestine section in canines, adapted for carnivorous digestion