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Digestive System
Digestive System is the category for questions regarding the breakdown and absorption of food-stuffs in our alimentary canal. Questions about the stomach and intestines can be included in this category.
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What can you give your dog to cure her indigestion?
Plain cooked chicken is probably one of the best foods to give your cat in the case of an upset stomach. Chicken is very bland and easy to digest.
Additionally, you could give your cat a malt paste called Pro-Kolin. It helps promote a healthy digestive system and thus helps settle an upset stomach. Most cats like the taste of this, too.
What three organs are responsible for the chemical digestion of food?
the three organs in your digestive system are the intestines, stomach, and liver
Why can't the wall of the small intestine be smooth?
It needs finger like protection as it is used for digestion. So it needs to be curvy.
Give the names of two labeled parts where food is digested?
Mouth(that produces saliva), stomach, gallbladder, pancreas, liver, bowels.
What can cause lower abdominal pain?
Abdominal pain is ache and discomfort that occurs in your abdomen. Your abdomen area includes the stomach, tummy, gut and belly can. These area can experience pain from time to time. There can be many causes of abdominal pain; lead poisoning, cystitis, appendicitis, aortic aneurysm, pregnancy or many others. Your pain may be mild or severe. If your pain is severe and your pain lasts over a week, contact a doctor immediately.
What are all the sphincters present along the GI tract?
some examples of the sphincter muscle are, the anus (not even joking, if we didn't have one there, we would poop our pants without controlling it lol), the intestines, stomach, bile duct, and uterus.
How are nutrients absorbed by the intestine cells?
it depends on the nutrients and their size. some nutrients absorb via diffusion, others is facilitated diffusion (needs a carrier protein and no energy), and others are via active transport (needs energy and a protein channel).
How many feet does food travel in the average digestive tract?
The digestive tract (a.k.a: gastrointestinal tract) (a.k.a: alimentary canal) is approximately 20 feet (6.5 meters) in a normal human adult male.
How does food move through the esophagus?
Saliva in the mouth moistens the food, while mastication (chewing) breaks the food into pieces. These enter the esophagus where gravity, the circular action of sliding against smooth muscle, and slight peristalsis moves the food into the stomach. Peristalsis is similar to gentle waves within the muscle walls of the esophagus. Peristalsis only and always moves in one direction: downward. Peristalsis in the intestines is stronger.
gravity my friend. gravity.
What is made when digestive juices and foods are mixed?
When digestive juices and foods are mixed, they form a semi-liquid substance known as chyme. This mixture occurs in the stomach, where gastric juices break down food into smaller particles, facilitating digestion. Chyme then moves into the small intestine, where further digestion and nutrient absorption take place.
What happens to dietary fiber during the digestion in the body?
It isn't completely digested and makes up the bulk of the feces in the colon.
How does food that is not digested get out of the body?
The rest of the food that is not absorbed into your body is defecated.
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 tract
peristalsis
Which takes longer to digest sugar or beans?
beans take longer time to get digested as they are proteins and complex carbohydrate while sugars is already refined and processed beand also has fibre and fibre takes long hours to get digested.
How are nucleic acids digested?
Nucleic acids are first broken down in the duodenum of the small intestine. A hormone called cholecystokinin stimulates the release of pancreatic juice from the pancreas, and a component of this pancreatic juice is a group of enzymes called nucleases. Nucleic acids are then digested by these nucleases into single units called nucleotides.
When do the lipids begin to be digested?
Digestion begins the instant you swallowed the food you just chewed up. Maybe not the instant but it begins when the food reaches your stomach.
How many grams of protein can be digested in one meal?
This is hugely dependent on size, weight, metabolism, body composition, and a hundred other factors of any unique individual's health. A single number can't really be given, but as I'll cite from web MD an average adult male should have about 52 grams of protein, and an adult female requires about 46 grams of protein per day. This is highly variable with each person and their specific needs of course.
Discuss the process of respiration?
Respiration involves the processes of inhalation and exhalation. It is used to control breathing through the exchanges of gases and distribution of oxygen.
The answers given here are wrong.The correct answer is assimilation.
What squeezes food down to stomach?
Your esophagus moves it so even when you eat upside down it will still go to your stomach. The series of muscle relaxations (infront of the bolus) and contractions (behind the bolus) that moved food down the esophagus is called peristalsis.
