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How is surface area maximized in the stomach and small intestines?
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∙ 14y ago
The stomach lining is quite smooth. The small intestine is lined with villi which increases surface area. Think of villi as little round popsicle sticks protruding from the lining.
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∙ 14y ago
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From the stomach the food moves to the large intestine?
From the stomach, the food moves into the small intestines. After the small intestines the food moves into the large intestines.
What do the stomach small intestines large intestines do?
your stomach and small intestines break food down and anything that gets to your large intestines exits your body through the anus
Aspirin is an acid with pKa of 3.5 is aspirin more absorbed in stomach where pH is 1 or in small intestine where pH is 6?
Aspirin is absorbed from the stomach but most of it is absorbed from small intestines because of poor dissolution of acidic drug in stomach acid, high dissolution in intestinal contents, large surface area on intestines and good blood flow in intestines
How is protease produced?
stomach and small intestines.
Why food goes in parts from stomach to small intestines?
The small intestines is an organ that takes in the nutrition from the food from the stomach, if all the food flows into the small intestines they would burst and you could suffer massive pains.
What are the four main parts of the digestion system?
Stomach, liver, Small and Large Intestines, Anus
Can the digestion be done in a different place than the stomach?
in the small intestines and the large intestines
What does the intestine empty into?
Stomach -> Small Intestines -> Large Intestines -> Through Anus and out of the body
Where is food digested and absorbed into the blood?
the stomach and the small and large intestines
What do you call the upper portion of the small intestines?
stomach
What organ of the digestive system has increased surface area?
The stomach which is lined with ridges called Rugae the small intestines, lined with vili and micro-vili
What the large intestine empties into this?
Stomach -> Small Intestines -> Large Intestines -> Through Anus and out of the body
