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Intestines
The intestines aid in the digestion and absorption of food and stretch from the stomach to the anus.
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If im coughing up white spongy substance from the throat what could this mean.?
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What causes human feces to be gray?
Grey Stool or "steatorrhea" indicates the presence of fat.
The medical term used for grey stools is steatorrhea, from prefix
steat-/ (fat), the connector /o/, and the suffix /-rrhea (flowing or bursting forth).
Stetorrhea can be caused by different underlying causes. Most of these underlying conditions are rooted in the disruption of digestive juices such as bile from the gallbladder (which emulsifies fat, making it frothy so that digestive enzymes can attack it) or any of the digestive enzymes made by the pancreas to digest fat. If any of these juices are in short supply or get blocked up, the body cannot digest and absorb fat, and the fat will simpy pass through the gut and out of the anus.
Also, the use of certain medications and food additives (such as Olestra in potato chips) has been associated with steatorrhea.
If you have ongoing steatorrhea, you should see a doctor and find out what is going on since it can be a sign of serious diseases such as cancers, bacterial infections, or cystic fibrosis.
The Digestion System is comprised of many organs in your body such as your stomach, mouth, esophagus, and your two intestines.
The main functions of the digestive system is to digest the foods you eat, absorbs those nutrients from the foods you eat, and disposes of the waste product (poop).
The two main types of digestion is chemical and physical digestion. Physical digestion is the physical breakdown of food, using your teeth, called mastication.
Chemical digestion uses different fluids and chemicals in your body to break down the food further, such as pepsin and hydrochloric acid.
At the small intestine, the food turns into chyme, which is semi-digested food, but not quiet yet waste products. The nutrients in the chyme then gets absorbed by the villi, which is the inside lining of the small intestine.
The large intestine takes water out of the chyme, and turns it to fecal matter. It is then pushed to the rectum which is the last part of the large intestine, then out the anus and into your toilet.
The digestive system refers to the system from the mouth to the bowels. It is the system that the body used to draw nutrients from food and to eliminate waste.
What takes place in the small intestine?
Bolus (masticated food) enters the stomach through the esophagus via the esophageal sphincter. The stomach releases proteases (protein-digesting enzymes such as pepsin) and hydrochloric acid, which kills or inhibits bacteria and provides the acidic pH of two for the proteases to work. Food is churned by the stomach through muscular contractions of the wall called peristalsis - reducing the volume of the fundus, before looping around the fundus[3] and the body of stomach as the boluses are converted into chyme (partially digested food). Chyme slowly passes through the pyloric sphincter and into the duodenum of the small intestine, where the extraction of nutrients begins. Depending on the quantity and contents of the meal, the stomach will digest the food into chyme anywhere between forty minutes and a few hours. The average human stomach can comfortably hold about a litre of food
There is a hole above my cats rectum with maggots how do you treat?
Maggots eat rotted, dead flesh, so if your cat's sore has maggots in it, chances are it's infected or even gangrenous.
Take the cat to the vet! If you cannot afford to take it to the vet, take it to the Humane Society and surrender it to them so they can give it the treatment it needs.
What is the relationship between the colon and the small intestine?
The waste left after the small intestine has finished absorbing nutrients amounts to a few liters (about the same as quart) of material per day and is directly delivered to the colon (at the cecum) for processing.
What organ doesn't absorb nutrients?
The mouth is one of the organs of the digestive tract that doesn't absorb nutrients. Another is the esophagus.
What is the differences between large hotels and small lodging establishments?
structure of large and small hotel organization?
Do Laxatives increase peristaltic activity in large intestine and are used to induce defecation?
Laxatives increase peristaltic activity in the large intestine to induce defecation
What are Gender differences with the Endocrine System?
The endocrine system releases hormones into the body. Depending on the person's gender will vary which hormones will be released. For females, they receive more estrogen and for men, testosterone. .
it might have a disease that effects the liver so your dog might die in 1-7 days
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How do you get rid of parasites in an aquarium?
You may need to remove the fish, thoroughly clean the tank then rinse it and all of the gravel and everything else with boiling water. If the fish are infected with the parasite you may need to replace them as well since they will just infect the aquarium again if they're put back in.
You may be suffering from irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). And allthough the exact cause of irritable bowel syndrome is still not fully understood, there are a number of credited contributing factors. Without anymore information about your case it's hard to give anymore advice other than see a GP.
Hi My daughter has just been diagnosed with Campyla Bacta, which has been a rather nasty bug which caused high temp, "the runs" and sickness over a period of 5 days. We have resorted to antibiotics to get rid of theis bug which I have been told by the doctors would not go without antibiotic intervention.
Why are there so many villi in the duodenum?
Villi cover most of the small intestine, and their job is to help the intestine absorb nutrients from food.
What causes the stool to be pure blood?
If any part of the digestive system is bleeding , then your stool will have blood in it. The stool forms and passes through your intestines, bowels, etc , and if you are having issues with bleeding- then obviously the blood will pass down with the stool when it exits your rectum.
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How does the length of the small intestine assist the digestion?
the lengthb increase the surface area so that it can better absorb nutrients
