This narrow portion, called the _intestine_, is about twenty-five feet long in a grown person.

The last few feet of the intestine is larger than the rest, and is called the _colon_.

This long tube is coiled up and snugly packed away in the cavity of the abdomen.

In the membrane lining the intestines are to be found little glands, which make a fluid called _intestinal juice_.
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The Liver.~--Close up under the ribs, on the right side of the body, is a large chocolate-colored organ, called the _liver_.