The colon (also known as the large intestine) is a U-shaped, segmented tube made of muscle that is located below the stomach ...

The small intestine is made up of three parts—the duodenum (first part), the jejunum (middle part), and the ileum (end part). Though the colon and the large intestine are occasionally mistaken ...

The large intestine is the final part of the lower gastrointestinal tract and includes the caecum, appendix, colon, rectum and anal canal. The large intestine's function is to finish digestion of ...

OSAKA (Kyodo) -- A Japanese research team has discovered new evidence on how genes function in the large ... colon, suggesting that foreign substances "not digested and absorbed in the small ...