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Why must the digestive tract be free of foods during an upper gi series?
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∙ 11y ago
so the food wont show up in the x-rays
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What propels foods through the digestive tract?
peristalsis plays a large role in moving food through the digestive tract
Does undigested foods leave the digestive tract through the small intestine?
No Through the anus.
Series of involuntary muscle contractions along the walls of the digestive tract?
Peristalsis.
What body organs excrete undigested foods?
The lower part of the digestive tract called the colon.
What is peristalses and what triggers it?
Peristalsis is a series of organized muscle contractions that occur throughout the digestive tract.
What is it that moves food along through the digestive tract even when we are lying down or floating in the weightlessness of space?
Peristalsis, a series of muscle contractions in the intestines and stomach that help to push the food through your digestive tract.
What is the last part of the digestive tract?
The anus is the last part of the digestive tract.
What muscle or nervous tissues move foods through the digestive tract?
it goes to the small intenstine but breaks down by pepsin
What is the wavelike movement of the digestive tract?
That wavelike movement of the digestive tract is known as peristalsis.
Do the liver and pancreas lay in the digestive tract?
The digestive tract consists of the mouth, the throat, the stomach, the intestines, the rectum, and the anus. The liver and pancreas are attached to the digestive tract by the means of tubes, so they can supply their own digestive fluids and enzymes, however they do not lay within the digestive tract.
Food moves through the digestive tract by wavelike contractions called?
Peristalsis is a series of involuntary smooth muscle contractions along the walls of the digestive tract that move food through the digestive tractperistalsis
How do you eat to keep regular?
There are plenty of foods that do this. You need to keep fiber a regular in your diet. Yogert is good for the digestive tract too.
