small intestine
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- The upper part of the intestine, between the stomach and the large intestine, divided into the duodenum, the jejunum and the ileum.
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From small + intestine, perhaps a partial calque of Middle English smaltharm, smaleþarm, from Old English smælþearme (“lower gut, small intestine”, literally “small tharm”).
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