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 ...

During fetal development, the small intestine undergoes several invaginations, where the small bowel becomes ensheathed. The result is formation of multiple villi and microvilli. Intestinal villi ...

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 ...

The epithelial lining of our intestine is organized in a crypt-villi architecture and serves many essential functions including maintenance of barrier, digestion and nutrient absorption. Due to the ...

Alveoli in the lungs, fish gills and the villi in the small intestine are adapted so that they have short diffusion distance, big concentration difference and large surface area. This means that ...

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 ...