You may think of the small intestine as a smooth tube that winds its way through your abdomen. But if you were to look really closely at the inside of the intestine, you would see that it is lined ...

Villi are tiny, hair-like projections and tissues composed of the cells lining your small intestine's inside walls. They ...

Researchers examined what a shortened bowel looks like over time, and discovered that the villi -- tiny, hairlike, fingerlike projections in the small intestine that absorb the food and nutrients ...

In the small intestine there are also specialised structures called villi which have a tiny hair-like structure poking into the small intestine to absorb digested food. If we stretched out all the ...