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ileum
ileum
ileum Major part of the small
intestine,
c.4m (13ft) long. Its inner wall is lined with finger-like villi, which increase the area for the absorption of nutrients.
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ILEA Academy in Roswell Notes Seventh Anniversary
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 9/24/2008; 700+ words
; ...coming just a week after the first pilot class at ILEA-Roswell began meeting, illustrated clearly...is a key purpose of the State Department's ILEA program. Frank Taylor, general manager of ILEA-Roswell and former New Mexico State Police...
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Keep ILEA. (Inner London Education Authority) (editorial)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 1/30/1988; 700+ words
; ...controlled Inner London Education Authority (ILEA) has a reputation for administrative inefficiency...government has therefore devised a plan to allow ILEA to destroy itself, by letting local boroughs...Westminster, contributes a quarter of ILEA's budget. Without their cash, ILEA...
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ILEA-Roswell Begins 72nd Session with 40 Delegates from Southeast Asia
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 10/20/2008; 674 words
; ...sessions each. Since classes began in 2001, ILEA-Roswell has hosted 2,800 delegates...27 languages. New Mexico Tech operates ILEA-Roswell under a cooperative agreement...Department. New Mexico Tech carries out ILEA operations through a consortium that includes...
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Isolated goat ileum preparation: An alternative to isolated ileum preparation from laboratory animals
Magazine article from: Indian Journal of Pharmacology; 3/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...alternative isolated tissue experiments. Ileum consists of a number of receptors including...and adrenoreceptors.[2] Guinea pig ileum has been a reference intestinal face...in this tissue preparations. Guinea pig ileum preparations respond to most of the common...
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SEN. DOMENICI, REP. PEARCE ANNOUNCE FIVE-YEAR CONTRACT RENEWAL FOR ILEA-ROSWELL OPERATIONS
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 2/21/2006; 688 words
; ...International Corp.--have operated ILEA-Roswell under a cooperative agreement...of March. "This is great news for the ILEA program in New Mexico. It will ensure a level of stability that will enable ILEA-Roswell to expand its work to train law...
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Academics call for return of ILEA to run London schools
Newspaper article from: Evening Standard - London; 11/21/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...authority, which would go beyond the scope of the ILEA's 12 inner boroughs plus the City, could...Brighouse admitted any suggestion of reviving the ILEA would be controversial. He said: "For some, the ILEA represented the worst of Leftwing and progressive...
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Getting Personal: Cuéllar and the ILEA/Wes Enzinna Replies
Magazine article from: NACLA Report on the Americas; 7/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...International Law Enforcement Academy (ILEA) in El Salvador, and the article reports...However, it frames its criticism of the ILEA as a personal attack on Benjamin Cullar...notes, IDHUCA decided to engage with the ILEA, offering a human rights course to police...
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Primary Epstein-Barr virus-associated Hodgkin disease of the ileum complicating Crohn disease
Magazine article from: Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine; 3/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...primary Hodgkin disease of the terminal ileum in a 38-year-old man with Crohn disease...ulcerated fistula involving the terminal ileum and urinary bladder. Reed-Sternberg...Hodgkin disease arising in the terminal ileum in a 38-- year-old man with Crohn disease...
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Mechanisms of the contractile effect of the alcoholic extract of Aegle marmelos Corr. on isolated guinea pig ileum and tracheal chain.
Magazine article from: Phytomedicine: International Journal of Phytotherapy & Phytopharmacology; 11/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...marmelos Corr. on guinea pig isolated ileum and tracheal chain was investigated, as...relaxant effect in isolated guinea pig ileum and tracheal chain, respectively. In...induced by A. marmelos in both guinea pig ileum and tracheal chain were due to the depression...
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Simultaneous bladder and vaginal reconstruction using ileum in complicated vesicovaginal fistula.(Original Article)(Case study)
Magazine article from: Indian Journal of Urology; 7/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...bladder and vaginal reconstruction using ileum. Materials and Methods: Four female patients...reimplantation, and reconstruction of vagina using ileum was performed in all the cases. Results...fistula. Vaginal reconstruction using ileum, resulted in capacious vagina. Adult...
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ileum
Book article from: A Dictionary of Biology
ileum The portion of the mammalian small intestine that follows the jejunum and precedes the large intestine . It is a site of digestion and absorption. The internal lining of the ileum bears numerous small outgrowths (see villus ), which increase its absorptive surface area.
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Ileoanal Anastomosis
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Surgery: A Guide for Patients and Caregivers
...the jejunum, which is the middle portion; and the ileum. The ileum is the last portion of the small intestine and empties...perform an ileoanal anastomosis, the surgeon detaches the ileum from the colon and the anal canal from the rectum. He...
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Ileostomy
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Surgery: A Guide for Patients and Caregivers
...temporary or permanent opening between the ileum (the portion of the small intestine that...surgeon forms a pouch out of tissue from the ileum and connects it directly to the anal canal...right side) to which the cut end of the ileum is sutured. The ileum may protrude from...
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Small Intestine Cancer
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer
...sections: the duodenum, jejunum, and ileum. The function of the small intestine is...occur in the smooth muscle lining of the ileum, the last section of the small intestine...Carcinoid tumors are most often found in the ileum. In approximately 50% of cases, they...
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Digestion and Absorption
Book article from: Nutrition and Well-Being A to Z
...there is the last segment, called the ileum. About 5 percent of undigested food products are broken down in the ileum. This is why some people can have a small...essentially finished, waste products leave the ileum with the help of fiber, and these solids...
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