Some people have a sigmoid colon that’s a bit longer than usual, which is a normal variation in human anatomy, she adds. “I was always told I had a long colon,” Grenham recalls.

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He played all 66 snaps in the 41-32 win and never appeared on the report again with the injury. It turns out Nix had a transverse process fracture in his back he played through. “The biggest week was ...

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It turns out, he played through a transverse process fracture in his back. "God was good to me this year, allowed me to stay upright. I was healthy, got to play each and every game," Nix said via ...

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There was complete loss of the transverse folds and villi of the ileum. The inflammatory process represented a direct continuation of the changes in the colon through the ileocecal valve ...

Anatomy is the field of biology that studies the structure of living things. Anatomy focuses on the composition, structure and location of the parts of organisms tissues, organs and systems ...