Tags: Anatomical Structure.
The large intestine is the last part of the digestive system in vertebrate animals. Its function is to absorb water from the matter and then to pass useless waste material from the body.Terminologia Anatomica Medscape and Gray’s Anatomy define the large intestine as the combination of the cecum colon rectum and anal canal. Other sources such as Mosby’s Medical Dictionary and the Oxford Dictionaries of Medicine and Biology exclude the anal canal.
