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What is the reflex that stimulates mass movements of the colon?
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What is the force behind mass movements?
gravity.
What is the mass movements of surface water is called?
Mass movements of water are called currents. This is equally true for surface water or deeper water.
What is mass movements are caused by gravity or glaciers?
Gravity
What are examples of mass movement?
The mass movements are: slump, creep, falls, slides, flows and avalanche.
Can mass movements cause damage and loss of lives?
yes
What is the duodenocolic reflex?
A reflex contraction in the colon triggered by the distention of the duodenum. An increase in colonic mass movements are induced by the enteric nervous system.
When feces are forced into the rectum by mass movements and the wall of the rectum becomes stretched what reflex is initiated?
The defecation reflex is initiated by stretching of the wall of the rectum. This reflex facilitates expulsion of feces through the anus.
When feces are forced into the rectum by mass movements and the wall of the rectum becomes stretched the blank is initiated?
The gastro-colonic reflex via the sacral nerve.
What is the purpose of a uvula?
A useless fleshy mass of tissueThe useless conical thingy hanging down from your soft palate is the uvula. ANSWERI might add that it is the pendular downward projection from the middle of the soft palate which helps to close off the back of the nasal cavity above it, during the complex movements of swallowing it also stimulates the gag reflex
What is the force behind mass movements?
gravity.
What is icd 9 code for colon mass?
239.0 is the code for a colon mass whose significance is unknown. When the pathology is back, you can be more specific.
Do the gastrocolic reflex triggers mass peristalsis?
yes
What is the semisolid mass of waste products in the colon?
feces
Three kinds of mass movements?
Landslides, mudflows, slump and creep
Why do over-steepened slopes lead to mass movements?
if the steepness of a slope exceeds the stable angle, mass movements become more likely.
What is the mass movements of surface water is called?
Mass movements of water are called currents. This is equally true for surface water or deeper water.
What does colonic loading mean?
It is a colon filled with fecal mass.
