The large bowel (large intestine)

This tube is ready 1.5 m long. It absorbs water and salts, and turns what is left over into solid waste subject (known as faeces, stools or poo when it leaves the physique). The huge bowel has three elements: • caecum – a pouch that receives waste from the small bowel; the appendix is a small tube hanging off the end of the caecum • colon – the main working area of the large bowel, the colon takes up many of the massive bowel’s length and has 4 constituents: ascending colon, transverse colon, descending colon and sigmoid colon • rectum – the final 15–20 cm of the huge bowel.