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What is the condition in which the small intestine cannot absorb nutrients from the food that passes through it?
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What are the two jobs of the small intestine?
To absorb the nutrients from the food and send it to the large intestine
What are villi and what role do they play in the process of absorption?
Villi are finger-like projections in the small intestine. Their role is to help the body absorb nutrients from the food. The villi are little tiny hairs inside the small intestine that absorb nutrients.
What helps the small intestine?
small intestine helps absorb nutrients
What happens to the nutrients before they leave the small intestine?
The nutrients absorb
What part of the body absorbs nutrients?
The system in the body that absorbs nutrients is the digestive system. Within the digestive system is the small intestine. When food passes through the small intestine, villi, absorb all of the nutrients the body needs from the food. Villi are small fingerlike projections in the small intestine that increase surface area and "reach" out to the food and absorb its nutrients. So, to answer your question, villi that are in the small intestine within the digestive system absorb what nutrients our body needs.
How does the body absorb nutrient's?
Most of the nutrients are soaked up by the small intestine through villi, I believe.
What does the intestine do in the human body?
Its main function is to absorb nutrients from food. The reason it is so long is so that there is more surface area in order to absorb more nutrients. The intestine also has a muscular surface which pushes food through as it is digested.
What does small intestine do to the food?
The function of the small intestine is to absorb nutrients through millions of vilosities along the intestine's wall, and to push food forwards by the movements of the bowels.
How is the small intestine adapted to absorb the nutrients?
it is adapted to absorbing nutrients due to the villi present in the small intestine.
What happens to the nutrients right before they leave the small intestine?
The nutrients absorb
What is the condition that interferes with the ability of the small intestine to take up nutrients?
Long term side effect of small pox vaccine. Renders villi in small intestine unable to breakdown and digest fats and absorb nutrients.
Where does food absorb and go in the blood?
Nutrients are absorbed from the small intestine the blood (red) vessel travel through.
