Short bowel syndrome
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A condition in which people cannot absorb enough water, vitamins, minerals, protein, fat, calories, and other nutrients from the food they eat because their small intestine is too short. The intestine is too short because they have undergone surgery to remove a portion of it, it is damaged, or they were born without one.
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