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What happens if the small intestine is missing?

Anonymous

∙ 11y ago

Updated: 9/6/2023

well, you'll die from malnutrition, since nutrients gets absorbed there (not in the stomach, they get broken down into smaller particles).

however a significant length of the small intestines can be removed by surgery as a result of some Disease or injury

Wiki User

∙ 14y ago

What else can I help you with?

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it enters the large intestine

Is a replacement for the missing bladder created by using about 20 inches of the small intestine?

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my but hole

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Repair with patch to small intestine recovery time

Absorption happens when nutrients are small enough to pass into your?

Intestine

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our body it will be tyred.

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you will die in five mints

What happens in the first part of the small intestine?

it absorbs a product

What happens if you eat your own tooth?

it will get stuck in your small intestine.

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the unabsorbed food in the small intestine passes through the ileocecal valve to the large intestine where, after the last few nutrients and fluids are reabsorbed, it is defecated.