medical question a.k.a attention the_preppy

[FuSoYa]

Do everyone's intestines wind the same way and have a congruous shape, or is it just a chaotic pile?

 

[lizard]

the old mormon guy in my office says that his family has a common birth defect where the intestines are like half upside down and therefore the appendix is like up almost in their chests.

sounds wierd to me but hey...

 

[minxnim]

small intestinal layout isn't exactly the same in every person, although the general shape and placement in the peritoneum is fairly close. the large intestines is *suppsed* to always be shaped basically like an uspide down "U", however, some people have creases or folds that shouldn't be there (sometimes causing IBS). a little known fact is that the small intestines isn't just 'floating' inside that cavity of the body, but is rather held by many flaps and layers of thin veiny tissue to the back and front of the peritoneal wall.

that said, it isn't *all* that uncommon for people to have awkward and abnormal folds or bends in their small intestines. sometimes these are caused by eating disorders too.

 

[FuSoYa]

so therefore it is *possible* to have patterns, shapes, etc. in a person's intestines that just happen to look like things?

 

[FuSoYa]

 

[FuSoYa]

henceforth, if your poops come out like curly fries, it's possible you have a SPIRAL intestine?

 

[minxnim]

the shape of your poop probably won't reflect the shape of your intestines at all, since it has to travel through the length of your long intestines and then sit in your sigmoid colon for quite a while. rather, the way it comes out depends on the muscles in your sphincter and the texture of your poop.

 

[minxnim]

i should add that your large intestines is rather boring and straight and that your sigmoid colon is in fact a big round glob.

 

[minxnim]

of course, inside an actual body it's not quite like that. rather it's smushed up and white and pasty (in dead people)

 

[FuSoYa]

yeah we saw an enlarged and dried / preserved one of those (sigmoid colons) at the mütter. It was full, too.

 

[minxnim]

it was full? christ that's nasty. all dried up? foul.

 

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