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Living without your small intestines is very unlikely, most of your bodies nurtients is absorbed here, and with out nurtients your bloodstream, tissue, and energy levels would go down. Fortunetly you can get sections of your small intestine removed if you had a disease that was fatal.
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∙ 16y ago
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∙ 15y agoYes both small and large are removable with reasonably good quality of life for the patient. In most cases the cancerous growth in the small intestine has not metastasized throughout the whole organ and just the diseased portion with small amounts of healthy tissue as a safety factor are removed leaving plenty of normal tissue to continue functioning.
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∙ 12y agoYou can survive without your intestines but you would have to live on TPN (IV nutrition). You would also have to have an ileostomy.
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∙ 11y agoIt can be replaced with an artificial one.
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∙ 12y agoyes, it does
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What helps prevent the small intestines from becoming entangled?
Don't remove your womb
Why is the small intestines referred to as the small intestines?
Because they are smaller then the big intestines. So they are referred to as the small intestine.
Why are small intestines longer than large intestines?
The intestines are a tissue from your body.
What is the difference between the esophagus and the small intestines?
what is the difference between the esophagus and the small intestines
What do the stomach small intestines large intestines do?
your stomach and small intestines break food down and anything that gets to your large intestines exits your body through the anus
From the stomach the food moves to the large intestine?
From the stomach, the food moves into the small intestines. After the small intestines the food moves into the large intestines.
How many intestines do you have-?
2 intestines the small intestine the large intestine
Why food goes in parts from stomach to small intestines?
The small intestines is an organ that takes in the nutrition from the food from the stomach, if all the food flows into the small intestines they would burst and you could suffer massive pains.
How long are the small intestines and large intestines put together?
your small intestine is small in diameter,but in measures 4 m to 7 m in length
What is the difference between small intestines of carnivores and small intestines of herbivore?
It is very long n herbivores as compared to carnivores .
What is the function of my small intestines?
Your small intestines absorb the food and nutrients as well as the water you take in. You can not survive without most of it.
Does cheese go to the lagre intestines?
Cheese is mainly composed of lipids and proteins. Proteins are digested in the stomach and small intestines and absorbed in the small intestines. Lipids are emulsified by bile in the duodenum and absorbed later in the small intestines. The only thing in cheese that makes it to the large intestines is the moisture, but most cheeses do not have a large water content.
