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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 is the adjective for indigestion?

difficulty in digesting food, accompanied by abdominal pain, heartburn, and belching Technical name dyspepsia

What causes nausea every time you eat?

There are too many possibilities to make an answer possible. Please see your health care provider as soon as possible so that you can get a full history and physical, and can start eating again.

Where does digestive system start and end?

The digestive system begins at the mouth and ends at the anus. In between, food travels through:

  • Pharynx
  • Esophagus
  • Stomach
  • Small Intestine (Here, it is also processed by the pancreas, liver, and spleen, though it passes through none of them)
  • Large Intestine
  • Rectum

What is chime in digestion?

It's a form of physical digestion, I assume its the substance inside your stomach, i.e liquid in the central region.

What happens in the alimentary y canal?

The alimentary canal, also known as the digestive tract, is responsible for processing food and absorbing nutrients. It begins with the ingestion of food in the mouth, where mechanical and chemical digestion occurs. As food moves through the esophagus to the stomach, it is mixed with gastric juices for further digestion. The small intestine then absorbs nutrients into the bloodstream, while the large intestine compacts waste for elimination.

What type of reaction is represented by the digestion of food in our body?

Name the major fuel component of bio gas. What are it's other combustible compound?

What is the substance produced by digestion which is an enegry resource for your cells?

Digestive foods contains molecules. From those molecules ATP (adenosine triphosphate) is harnessed and used.

What important part stones play a role in an ostrichs digestive system?

it plays an important role because the stones wind up the birds gizzard, a pace which helps to grind the birds food, before it reaches the intestines.

How does the skeletal system help the digestive system?

The skeletal system stores the excess calcium that the digestive system breaks down from food. The body does not need all of the calcium that it gets from food, so it stores what is not needed within the bones until the body has a use for it. This is what keeps your bones hard and strong.

Is a digestive system a tissue?

No, the digestive system is an organ system made up of organs, which in turn are made up of tissues.

In what order does the food get digested in?

the mouth,pharnyx/throat, esophagus,stomach,small intestine,large intestine,rectum,and anus

you can include the liver,gallbladder,salivary glands,and pancreas in there but food doesnt pass threw it

Where does hair go after you swallow it?

through the esophagus to the stomach and the rest of the intestional tract.

What is it called when you chew your food into a ball?

The mechanical shredding and crushing of food (together with the mixing in of salivary amylase to start digestion) is mastication.

What are the organs in a fetal pigs digestive system?

The circulatory system is big and complex. The basics are that generally arteries convey oxygenated blood, while veins carry deoxygenated blood. The left side of the pig conveys oxygenated blood and the right conveys deoxygenated. The only exception to the artery vein rule is in the pulmonary artery and vein. The pulmonary vein, in this case, conveys oxygenated blood to the left atrium away from the lungs. The pulmonary artery then carries deoxygenated blood away from the left ventricle to the lungs. To start the right atrium conveys blood from the superior vena cava to the right ventricle. The left atrium conveys blood from pulmonary vein to left ventricle. THe right ventricle conveys blood from the right atrium to the pulmonary artery. The left ventricle gives blood from the left atrium to the aorta. The coronary artery is the artery snaking down the middle of the heart conveying oxygenated blood around the heart. The aorta transports blood from the left ventricle to the arteries. The superior vena cava conveys deoxygenated blood from the upper body to the right atrium. The inferior vena cava conveys deoxygenated blood from the lower body to the right atrium. The common carotid arteries convey oxygenated blood from heart to head. The external and internal jugular veins convey deoxygenated blood from head to heart. The subscapular arteries give blood to the shoulders and the axillary give blood to the armpits. Renal arteries convey oxygenated blood from the aorta to kidneys. The renal veins convey deoxygenated blood from the kidneys to the inferior vena cava. Femoral arteries give blood to legs while iliac arteries and veins give blood to genitals. THe ductus arteriosis, the webbing above the heart gives blood o the aorta from the pulmonary artery. The umbilical artery is simply used for blood exchange when the mother during early develoopment of the pig feti.

What is another name for the colon other than the large intestine?

Another name is the liver, the large intestine is not another name for colon. Whenever someone is diagnosed with colon cancer it is because the liver isn't producing bile and filtering toxins.

How does indigestion remedy help indigestion?

that remedy is called antacid and is helps with indigestion because you can the remedy 'antacid'. antacid contains weak bases.bases neutralize acid by reacting with them to form water and a salt. the reason the weak bases are used instead of strong bases is because strong bases would neutralize to much acid and would most likely kill you.

What are three nutrients broken down during human digestion?

Fats, proteins and starches are broken down.

Starch is broken down by amalyase in the mouth and duodenum

Proteins are converted to polypeptides by pepsin

Lipase hydolises fats to glycerol and fatty acids

Trypsin digests proteins to peptides

chymotrypsin digests proteins to peptides

Peptidase hydolises polypeptides to peptides and amino acids

nucleotidases hydrolise nucleic acids

nucleaase digests DNA and RNA

sucrase breaks down sucrose

maltase breaks down maltose

lactase breaks down lactose

Is the liver part of digestive system?

Yes. If liver malfunctions, you get hapatitis, by which the whole digestive system is impaired.

Where are poisons broken down in the digestive system?

The liver is the organ in the body that cleans poisons out of the system. Red blood cells and Kupffer cells are formed in the liver. Red blood cells carry oxygen and Kupffer cells eliminate microorganisms.

What is meant by reverse peristalsis and describe what parts are involved?

Peristalsis is the muscular action that causes material to travel (normally) through the gastro-intestinal system.

Reverse peristalsis is the reverse :

that is from the colon to the small intestines to the stomach to the esophagus to the mouth - and then vomited out.