intestinal flora
Britishnoun
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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
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.
From The Vitamine Manual by Eddy, Walter H.
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