The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word ILEAC
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More clues leading to the result ILEAC
- Some vile activity in part of the gut
- Alice is wounded in the guts
- Concerned with intestines, one former physician years ago leaving hospital
- Belonging to part of digestive system some bile activates
- Iodine percolating halfway in gut
- Alice twisted part of the small intestine
- Intestinal bile actor is repressing
- Vile account incorporating information about the small intestine
- Intestinal fortitude essentially on field leading to century
- Docile actions disguise visceral character
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