The hindgut (or epigaster) is the posterior (caudal) part of the alimentary canal. In mammals, it includes the distal one third of the transverse colon...

Hindgut fermentation is a digestive process seen in monogastric herbivores (animals with a simple, single-chambered stomach). Cellulose is digested with...

Neoisopterans and all other Euisoptera have flagellates and prokaryotes in their hindguts. Extant families and subfamilies are organized as follows: Basal Neoisoptera...

membrane to the cloacal membrane and is divided into the foregut, midgut, and hindgut. At the end of the third week, the neural tube, which is a fold of one...

canal from the end of the foregut at the opening of the bile duct to the hindgut, about two-thirds of the way through the transverse colon. During development...

herbivores which can digest cellulose nearly as well as ruminants are called hindgut fermenters, while ruminants are called foregut fermenters. These are subdivided...

microvilli, increase the surface area of the wall to absorb nutrients. In the hindgut, undigested food particles are joined by uric acid to form fecal pellets;...

lower third of the anal canal. Developmentally, this line represents the hindgut-proctodeum junction. It is an important anatomical landmark in humans,...

waste out of the blood in the hemocoel, and dumps these materials into the hindgut, from which they are expelled as feces. Most aquatic arthropods and some...

rumination, as opposed to other atlantogenates that rely on the more typical hindgut fermentation, though this is not entirely certain. Ruminants represent...