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[#] 6 [Description and Function] Is it poop yet? (We'll call it 'feces' [sounds like 'fee-cees'] or 'stool' from now on rather than 'poop' or other 's' words) Getting close. There are many sections to the large bowel - the appendix, caecum, ascending (rising) colon, transverse (across) colon, descending (going down) colon, sigmoid colon, the rectum and the anus. The main purposes of the large intestine is to pass remaining essential nutrients into the bloodstream and the storage and elimination of waste left-overs. As the nutritional fluids are absorbed and transfered out to the bloodstream, the contents get more solid and compact. [Name] 
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