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. 2010 Jun 21;588(Pt 15):2919–2934. doi: 10.1113/jphysiol.2010.191445

Figure 2. Emptying of faecal pellets from the colon.

Figure 2

A, colon full of faecal pellets and following their spontaneous evacuation (left hand panels). Plot of the reduction in length of whole colon as each pellet is evacuated. B, velocity of faecal pellets as they are expelled from the colon. C, pellet velocity of an epoxy coated faecal pellet allowed to spontaneously propagate down the colon plotted against artificial increases in colonic length.