The United Kingdom (UK) comprises four countries: England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.Within the United Kingdom, a unitary sovereign state, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales have gained a degree of autonomy through the process of devolution.imilarly, the British overseas territories, remnants of the British Empire, are not part of the UK. Historically, from 1801, following the Acts of Union, until 1921 the whole island of Ireland was a country within the UK. Ireland was split into two separate jurisdictions in 1921: Southern Ireland and Northern Ireland.
Intestine: The long, tubelike organ in the abdomen that completes the process of digestion. It consists of the small and large intestines. Last Editorial Review: 6/9/2016.
Definition. noun (1) The digestive tract where food passes through so that the nutriment is digested and absorbed into the blood whereas the indigestible or nonessential portion is eliminated as waste (2) A tubular structure of muscle and mucous membrane lining that begins at the mouth and ends at the anus