Talk:Large intestine

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[edit] Merged

The colon and large intestine pages definitely should not be merged as the large intestine is composed of the colon and the cecum, not just the colon. It would be acceptable to make the colon article part of the large intestine article, but certainly not the other way around. 204.60.103.130 (talk) 23:13, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

This article was merged into Colon (anatomy) as the two articles had substantially similar content, and the other wasn't a stub. - Stephanie Daugherty (Triona) - Talk - Comment - 18:42, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Unmerged. The colon is a part of the large intestine; the terms are not synonyms. Of course, I would be happy to hear what other people think about the issue. Perhaps some of the content at colon should be brought here. --Arcadian 18:51, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
Should be merged in my opinion. For all practical purposes, colon = large intestine -- Samir धर्म 18:56, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
Please also read c_47/12249855 at Dorland's Medical Dictionary, which explicitly acknowledges that as a common but incorrect assumption. --Arcadian 19:11, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
No, I realize that :) Doesn't mean we need two separate articles on colon and large intestine. Practically speaking, the cecum and colon have the same histology, function and pathology (other than typhlitis). The anatomical definitions are, well, archaic, and based on what is retroperitoneal and what is not. I suggest large intestine as the main article (describing the anatomical definitions) with colon as a redirect to the same. -- Samir धर्म 19:30, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
In retrospect it works better as is with large intestine as an umbrella article for cecum, colon, rectum and anal canal. Forget all that I said... -- Samir धर्म 19:35, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
We also had Large Intestine (note caps) as an existing redirect to Colon (anatomy) - this is rather inconsistant having the two, theres a lot of overlap here, and we really shouldn't have the same or largely the same information on two different articles. Even if we keep seperate articles, the overlap needs to be resolved one way or another. Merging seems like the quickest fix here, but other solutions may be able to be found. - Stephanie Daugherty (Triona) - Talk - Comment - 00:30, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
  • I strongly oppose merging "large intestine" into "colon", because colon is only part of the large intestine, and not otherwise. Merging "colon" article into "large intestine" might be acceptable, but I would prefer having them as two different articles. --Maxxicum 13:28, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

I advise to not merge the two articles, but have two seperate article with simply the same information. T his makes it easier to use, because unless you adapt the algorithem, whenever someone serches for 'colon' nothing will come up. they will be forced to search for 'large intestine' or vice versa depending on what you call the merged article. Its just more practical. -smartcookie2u 18:31, December 2007

In common usage people consider the colon to be equivalent to the large intestine. Colonoscopy is called that, rather than rectocolocecoscopy as an analagy to esophagogastroduodenoscopy. There is reason to look at the rectum as separate given the blood supply and management of malignancy in the rectum, but the distinction of cecum from the colon is an issue that anatomists seem to still care about, wheras clinicians see the human cecum as part of the colon. For example, we have our colorectal surgeon colleagues who I generally call for resection of cecal ca's, and never once has such a surgeon begged off on the consult because it was outside of his region of expertise. The best arrangement would be to have an article on Large Intestine with subsections devoted to the rectum and colon. Colon to be subdivided into cecum, ascending, transverse, descending, and sigmoid. Reference to the cecum as a separate organ would be mentioned in terms of anatomic correctness and with reference to the cecum having specialized function in non-human species. A redirect from colon to Large intestine would meet the needs for users looking up colon vs large intestine. Arcadian could then fully expound on the differing vasular and lympahtic drainage of all the subsections. Stephen Holland, M.D. Kd4ttc (talk) 03:39, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Reversions

1.5 m is NOT the length of 2 buses. Please do not add illogical things to Wikipedia. -- Ouishoebean / (talk) (Humour =)) 16:37, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Rectum

Why isn't rectum included here? 168.224.1.14 15:06, 7 November 2007 (UTC)