What is the Small Intestine or Small Bowel?
The small bowel is five metres in length in an adult and half that length for a baby. If all the folds were flattened out, the surface area would equal that of a doubles tennis court. This allow large amounts of digested nutrients to pass through the lining of the small intestine into the blood stream, which distributes them through out the body. • The duodenum is the first part of the small bowel and is about 30cm long.
