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The present treatise is primarily concerned with the structural and morphometric parameters of the cecum and large intestine of mammals. Over the past century, numerous accounts have visually presented the variation and diversity of the large intestine of mammals. This includes above all comprehensive works on the macroscopic anatomy. More recently, the microscopic anatomy of various animals at the light, electron, and scanning electron microscopy levels has been covered, especially for rodents and primates. In the past two decades, progress has been made by adding a new dimension to the previous structural studies, namely, the morphometries analysis of the intestine of various animals and subsequent employment of this data in an analysis based on principles of scaling.
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Snipes, R.L. (1997). Summary. In: Intestinal Absorptive Surface in Mammals of Different Sizes. Advances in Anatomy Embryology and Cell Biology, vol 138. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60822-3_5
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