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The part of the gastrointestinal tract that extends from the stomach to the anus. The intestines are further subdivided into the large intestine and small intestine. (See digestive system.)

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Polio is an enterovirus (lives and is replicated in our intestines) that is spread via fecal-oral transmission.
U.N. Calls Middle East Polio Outbreak ‘Greatest Polio Challenge in History’|Kent Sepkowitz|April 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Reducing the amount of the virus in the lower intestines could then help keep uninfected people uninfected.
Weed Could Block H.I.V.’s Spread. No, Seriously.|Abby Haglage|February 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In other words, the body works hard to keep bad stuff in the intestines and the good stuff out.
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Particular scientific interest has been focused on bacterial (and other microbial) diversity in our intestines.
Buy That Breast Milk!|Kent Sepkowitz|October 22, 2013|DAILY BEAST

Slaughtering cattle is not a very clean process and meat can become contaminated from the intestines.
Be Afraid of Your Food: An Epidemiologist’s Sensible Advice|Amanda Kludt|March 16, 2013|DAILY BEAST
He is less corpulent, and his legs are shorter; in the stomach and intestines, there is a difference of conformation.
Buffon's Natural History. Volume VII (of 10)|Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon
But we notice that the intestines of man, both small and large, are relatively longer than in the frog.
A Civic Biology|George William Hunter
Of or from the belly or intestines; relating to the intestinal secretions.
Cooley's Cyclopdia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I|Arnold Cooley
Some of the flies themselves were then caught, and their intestines presented large numbers of the ova.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 415, December 15, 1883|Various
It is no easy matter to get at the fat in the inside of an elephant,378 as the whole of the intestines have first to be removed.
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