The corpus record — Latin

nestis

nestis · f

the second part of the small intestines

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What it meant

nestis — Lewis & Short

nestis, ĭdis, f., = nh=stis,

I the second part of the small intestines; Lat. intestinum jejunum, so called because always found empty: nestide paralysi vitiata, Cael. Aur. Tard. 2, 1, 11; 5, 10, 100.

Where it came from

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