#ileo

Tabitha arrived at the cemetery with an armful of flowers, one bouquet for her father’s grave and one for Keyelin Locke’s. She always came like this, just like she always came on New Year’s Day. Tabitha was nothing if not a creature of habit, afterall, and she’d been visiting the cemetery for a long time. The gravestones didn’t scare her the way they did most people, or make her uneasy; this was a familiar place, where she came to think or to be alone with her feelings. 

But as familiar as the cemetery was to Tabitha, she wasn’t used to seeing another person weaving through the headstones. At first it set her on edge, and she couldn’t help but remember the letter and the storms, the danger that was looming over her town. Then she recognized the figure as the man she’d met on Halloween, the one who’d said he worked here. She exhaled as Leo approached, and managed a smile. “I guess you really do hang out here,” she joked lightly. “Happy New Year.”

Il cieco è un tratto:

L’intestino è un organo formato da un tubo che ha come estremi il piloro e l’orifizio anale ed è posto nella cavità addominale. La sua funzione è essenzialmente digestiva; è suddiviso in intestino tenue (duodeno, digiuno e ileo) e intestino crasso (cieco, colon e retto) ed è lungo complessivamente 9 m, due terzi dei quali appartengono al tenue.

La funzione dell’intestino crasso è quella di…