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intestinal flora

British  

noun

  1. microorganisms that normally inhabit the lumen of the intestinal tract

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Microorganisms in the intestinal flora help to speed up the process.

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The intestinal flora in the human gut are able to extract some nutrition from these plant fibers.

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They choose latrines believed to have been used by many people in an attempt to gather insight into the intestinal flora of whole communities.

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It was well known that in rats and man the intestinal flora can be changed from a putrefactive form to a non-putrefactive type by feeding milk sugar or lactose.

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