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—A. The folded interior of the jejunum; B. Villi arranged on the circular folds of the jejunum; C. Healthy villi and glands in the duodenum (Hamilton 1956)
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Because poor nutritional outcomes in childhood are linked to a lifetime of negative economic and social consequences, nutritional assessments are commonly employed as a key poverty indicator. For this reason, a broader set of nutritional indicators is under consideration for inclusion as measures of achievement toward the post-2015 Millennium Devel...
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... and finger-like projections called villi line the walls of the small intestine and enormously increase the surface for absorption. (See Figure 2.) Because of the folds and villi, the small intestine has a surface area some ten times greater than the human skin surface (Van De Graaf 2002). ...
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