Thus, short-bowel syndrome can be produced by clinical entities that result in critical loss of mucosal surface area (eg, massive small-bowel resection) or degrade mucosal integrity (eg, radiation enteritis). Macronutrients and micronutrients are absorbed along the length of the small intestine.
When people are born with both sexes, also knows as hermaphrodites, one of the sexes doesn't work. This is to prevent self impregnation. One thing you have to remember is that mutations are always for the best. Forgotten Junk Â· 10 years ago.
At that stage both sexes have a genital tubercule which will turn into the penis for a boy and the clitoris for a girl. The way the doctor can tell gender is to look at the angle between the genital tubercule and the spine, that is, which way the genital tubercule is pointing. My doctor explained this to me when we found out at 12 weeks we were having a girl (doctor said he was about 97% sure).