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The thermometer section is too extensive. I think it should be narrowed down to a sentence or two.

what does the rectum do?

Well the rectum stores waste thats what it does.

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Note: this article contains text from the public domain 1918 edition of Gray's Anatomy.

Etymology

I disagree with the etymology given for rectum. Its original name was rectum intestinum - which does mean "the straight intestine" - the reason being that in certain animals (those dissected by Galen and followers) it is straight.

Annotated histo image

Hi Tom (LT),

The annotated histology image I promised long ago on the Anatomy project page is finally available in Wikimedia Commons. I have not inserted a picture to a Wikipedia site before but the image is available here. UWM.AP.Endo (talk) 16:37, 5 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Faeces "are", not "is"

See for example [1]. Edit was recently reverted that was not grammatically correct. Can discuss below if required.

Anne N. Cephaly please provide a reliable source to back up your statement that we should state "faeces is". --Tom (LT) (talk) 06:35, 30 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

My on-line dictionary is the New Oxford American Dictionary. I also looked it up in several other dictionaries. Apparently feces is occasionally not a plural noun in Britain. Should the odd grammatical idiosyncrasies of British English like the exception to the rule of subject-verb agreement, i.e. the team are... not is, be part of Wikipedia? If the general rules of plural forms were used for the word feces it would be a fece and several feces, right?Anne N. Cephaly (talk) 16:18, 30 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Also my sources say that in Britain it's spelled as "faeces" so this article is written in American English, so it's a plural noun.Anne N. Cephaly (talk) 16:40, 30 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Feces is an American English transliteration from the Latin form faeces (transliterated to comply more consistently with American English pronunciation rules), where the Latin word faeces is the nominative plural form of the Latin word faex (lit. translated to English as “residue, dregs”). Therefore it is a plural form in all variations of English. Therefore, the correct form is "are" not "is". 98.178.191.34 (talk) 21:21, 9 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Rectrum

The Page on the red rum is very helpful 2A00:23C8:5106:601:95C0:A6B5:A6F3:3578 (talk) 19:11, 12 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]