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intestinal flora

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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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They compared these with publicly available data from two studies on intestinal flora.

From Science Daily • Oct. 24, 2023

Yet you can buy this product, described as beneficial for "intestinal flora," from multiple sites with just one click.

From Salon • Aug. 12, 2023

Undigested food is moved through the colon, where intestinal flora aid in digestion by peristalsis, and then stored in the rectum until elimination through the anus.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

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

From The Guardian • Oct. 9, 2020

The most important of these belong to the intestinal flora which is abundant and varied.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir

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