Talk:Duodenum

message: I don't understand a word. What is this article about? -- JeLuF
:It's part of the digestive system. I made a couple of changes; is it to clearer now? Vicki Rosenzweig
I removed the bit about Greek etymology:
:it is derived from the Greek dodekadaktulon
which, although mentioned on certain web sites, is not borne out by the OED.  The OED says that duodena means dozen (sc. fingers or inches).  There may well be, or have been, a Greek word dodekadaktulon, but it is not the etymon of duodenum.  --Heron
:dodekadaktulon also appears to mean "twelve fingers."  Perhaps this Greek word is the original, and it was translated into its Latin equivalent. --Reuben
btw: the duodenum is referred to be located in the retroperitoneum (secondary retroperitoneal)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.153.196.160 (talk • contribs) 03:20, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: I don't understand=

message: Removed from the article:  "...and is about 18 cm (7 in) long"  -- is this for an average northern european adult male?  An average teenage Peloponnesian female?  +sj + 06:42, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removing single-length comment 

message: Is the stress put on the e or on the o? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Orthografer (talk • contribs) 06:44, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: My teacher says doo-O-DEE-num, but I say du-OD-num. Dictionary.com says doo-uh-dee-nuhm and doo-od-nuhm.Blindman shady 05:21, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation 

message: On 12 November 2008, User 207.62.208.2 added a block of text talking about Methotrexate and intestinal lesions.  This section doesn't really flow right and clearly doesn't belong in the paragraph it was added to, nor in the section on the function of the duodenum.  I'm not even sure if it belongs in this article at all.  It looks as if it was copy-pasted from some other source, but Google come up empty (other than Wikipedia related hits).   The user 207.62.208.2 seems to have been editing lots of medically related pages, and he has been warned a couple of times on his talk page.  But I really don't have enough medical knowledge to evaluate anything about his contribution, other than reading it as a lay person.
For the time being, I have moved this contribution to a seperate section.  Scott Roy Atwood (talk) 00:23, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Section on Methotrexate 

message: "It is most likely that one of the digestive additives produced by the Duodenum on entry of food in to it (or a secondary product) is absorbed by the jejunum and ileum and spread into the body instead of passing through the digestive system. The presence of those chemicals causes the muscles to exhibit insulin resistance and ultimately Type 2 Diabetes. Identification of these chemicals may lead to a cure for Type 2 Diabetes."
This section does not seem to be grounded in correct anatomical knowledge and is misleading. First, the phrase digestive "additives" made by the duodenum is misleading; these "additives" are present during every feeding event. Second, even if said additives or the vague "secondary product" are absorbed at the jejunum or ileum, they do not bypass the digestive system as implied; rather, this is the purpose of the digestive system. Almost all substances absorbed in the small intestine (duodenum + jejunum + ileum) go to the hepatic portal system, through the liver where metabolism and many other things happen, and then to the rest of the body. However, the way this is written, it says that the duodenum adds things the digestive tract that then bypass the digestive tract and somehow cause diabetes.
Wallball 7 (talk) 03:19, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Duodenum and Type II Diabetes 

message: In the 3th part of the duodenum the article says: "The third (inferior/horizontal) part of the duodenum begins at the inferior duodenal flexure and passes transversely to the left, crossing the left ureter, left testicular/ovarian vessels..." I think it should be right ureter and right testiculr/ovarian vessels because the duodenum is on the right and then turns left crossing the right vessels, finally ending on the left part of the body. An Anatomy book in my bookshelf says the same, but i'm not an expert. This should be checked.--Miguelferig (talk) 18:26, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Right or left

message: Too small -- CFCF 🍌 (email) 21:07, 6 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merge with [[Duodenal cap]] 

message: The entry under “accessory organs” does not cite any sources and is poorly written. I have no background in biology or anatomy, but if someone who does could look at it and try to fix it up, that would be neat. Thanks Blob401 (talk) 05:47, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Accessory Organs Section 

message: I attempted to add IPA pronunciation of the term to the lead. However, it seems that there's two different ways that people generally pronounce it from the quick search that I did. Is one more valid than the other? I don't have a background in medicine or anatomy so I’m afraid I wouldn't know. OlliverWithDoubleL (talk) 08:45, 10 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation 

message: — Assignment last updated by Bigeb11 (talk) 21:10, 13 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: Human Anatomy Lab