What is Insufficiency, small intestine?

Aortic insufficiency: Backflow of blood from the aorta into the left ventricle across a weakened aortic valve. Also known as aortic...

Cardiac insufficiency: See: Heart failure.

Coronary insufficiency: Insufficient blood flow through one or more coronary arteries.

Intestine: The long, tubelike organ in the abdomen that completesthe process of digestion. It consists of the small and large intestines.

Intestine, large: The tubelike organ that completes the process of digestion, receiving material from the small intestine. It has four parts: the cecum (caecum), the appendix (vermiform appendix), the colon,...

Intestine, small: The tubelike organ that receives the products of digestion from the stomach. It has three parts, the duodenum, the jejunum, and the ileum. The duodenum is rich in...

Large intestine: Comes after the small intestine. Large becauseit is wider than the small intestine.

Malrotation of the intestine: Failure of the intestine to rotate normally during the development of the embryo. One of the dangers of malrotation of the intestine is that the intestine...

Small intestine: The part of the digestive tract that extendsfrom the stomach to the large intestine.

Small intestine insufficiency: See: Short bowel syndrome.