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TPN, or total parenteral nutrition, is taking in nutrients through a small vein. It is used when a patient can't tolerate nutrition via the digestive system.
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A vessel which brings blood back to the heart?
Taking in nutrients through the small intestine
The place where nutrients enters the blood?
The small intestine .
The structure that absorbs nutrients from the small intestines and delivers the nutrients in the blood to the liver is the?
hepatic portal vein
Is a vein a small blood vessel that delivers oxygen and other nutrients to cells?
No, a Capillary is a small blood vessel that delivers oxygen and other nutrients to cells.
What organs blood flow directly to portal vein?
The hepatic portal vein carries blood (and absorbed nutrients) from the small intestine to the liver.
What is varicose vein stripping?
They make a small incision into the leg (and vein), insert a special tool through the vein, and then peel it out.
Vessel that transports nutrients to the liver?
An artery carries blood to the liver, not a vein. The hepatic artery.Maybe you meant to ask which vein receives nutrient-rich blood from the small intestine. That would be the superior mesenteric vein. But it doesn't go to the liver.
Where do the nutrients that pass through villi go?
They will pass through the hepatic portal vein to get processed by the liver before heading to the rest of the body.
Where does blood flow to after the small intestine?
the bllod from small intestine drains into portal vein and which gives that blood to liver
Whoch blood vessels have the hishest concentration of Amino acids and Glucose?
All of the nutrients absorbed by the small intestine (including amino acids and glucose) travel through the hepatic portal vein to the liver.
The absorbed nutrients travel to the liver via the?
During digestion, the absorbed nutrients travel to the liver via a special type of vein. The vein is called the hepatic portal vein.
Blood leaving the intestine goes by way of a vein to the?
Blood leaves the intestine through the hepatic portal vein and goes to the liver.
